The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

Home of the "true" equator.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.