An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

Massive rock sculptures formed during the time of the dinosaurs still stand undisturbed.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

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

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.