This historic fort overlooks Montevideo and appears on Uruguay’s coat of arms.

The remains of Uruguayan hero José Artigas lie beneath a monument in Montevideo’s main square.

This beautiful example of neoclassical architecture is one of Uruguay's most treasured cultural gems.

The Sun, Moon, and stars peacefully coexist with animals, humans, and their tools at this surprising sculpture park.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

These spectacular ruins were built by Spanish padres in the 17th century.

Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.

A beautiful riverside mansion where the intellectual life of early-20th-century Argentina flourished.

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

The narrowest house in Buenos Aires is less than 10 feet wide.

The clients of these mysterious hand-crafted funeral cars took their last ride in style.

A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.

One family's mission to exemplify sustainability took on a whole new life as a surprisingly beautiful home.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.