The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

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

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.

This cave system allegedly holds the "metallic library" of a lost ancient civilization.

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.