This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

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.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

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

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

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

Balanced rock sculptures pay tribute to a murdered conservationist and his pioneer wife.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

These enigmatic ruins continue to vex archaeologists.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.