This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

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

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

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

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

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

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