Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

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

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

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

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

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

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Wander among hulking piles of rusted machinery left over from the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

This eatery is emblematic of the connection between Jamaica and Nubia.

This 7th-century monastery was sacked by Saladin.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.