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

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

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

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

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

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

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

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

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

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

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

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

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

Death road of Bolivia.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

A desert that evokes the surreal.