This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

This kilometer-long university building is an unexpected architectural delight.

This necropolis is home to eclectic funerary art and is the final resting place for much of the city's nobility.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

In the Manduri reserve of Sao Paulo, you can see the endangered black-horned capuchin monkey up close.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

This unique 230-foot waterfall is a natural beauty hidden within the vast wild landscape.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.