An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

This dramatic monument in Colombia honors a little-known indigenous fighter for independence.

A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Rediscovered in 1992, this abandoned medieval village once flourished by fishing and piracy.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.