19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

This 18th-century tower is locally iconic.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This skyscraper once housed weapons during the revolution and was the scene of two brutal crimes that shocked São Paulo society.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

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

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

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

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

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

Constructed on the ruins of a convent, this tower saved countless lives.