In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This group of small islands on Lake Nicaragua formed after an eruption of the Mombacho volcano.

The crumbling remains of a once-grand building.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

An ever-growing field of footwear invites legends and more shoes.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.

This small island off the coast of Uruguay hosts the largest colony of sea lions and fur seals in the southern hemisphere.

Where sweethearts leave their love locks in the Uruguayan capital.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.