A Tudor-style castle in Brazil holds one of the world's largest armory collections.

Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

The ruins of this Brazilian island prison still bear the scars of the bloody rebellion that closed it down.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

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

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

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 historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

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