The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.