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

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

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

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

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

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

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

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

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.