The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.