The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

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

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

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

This small bridge serves as a symbol of South America's independence.

A little known Colombian theme park of giant curiosities.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

Colombia's first concrete structure doubles as a replica of Versaille's Petit Trianon Belvedere and a symbol for development.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.

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

The world's first crowdfunded skyscraper has not gone quite to plan.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

At the site of a graffiti artist's murder, fellow artists gather to pay homage.

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.

Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.