This bright pink Gandhi memorial was built so that sunshine hits a specific spot on his birthday.

This fort dates back to 1588 and was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch, and English and sits prominently on the Indian Ocean where azure water lap the coast.

This ruined temple's giant Buddha statue bears the scars of the Second Indochina War.

Built by King Norodom to honor his late father.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

Out of all the statues of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, this one is the tallest and the most impressive.

One of the most iconic sculptures in Caracas looks like a large orange ball suspended in the air.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

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

This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the earth's surface.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

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

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

This 19th-century shopping arcade has charming, unusual stores like a luthier workshop and even the local Esperanto Association.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

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

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