A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

In the Manduri reserve of Sao Paulo, you can see the endangered black-horned capuchin monkey up close.

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

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

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

Dozens of vintage puppets are displayed in an unassuming hallway at the public library.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.

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

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

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

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

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

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

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.