A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.