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

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

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

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

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

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

This Brazilian palace island was once the site of the last grand ball before revolution.

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

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

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

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

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

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

The first model village in Brazil, built in 1917 to house workers at the jute sack factory.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

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

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.