The longest sea beach in the world can be found on the southern coast of Brazil.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

Modern pyramids built to channel positive energy have also fomented local tales of animal sacrifice.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

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

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

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

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

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

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

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

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

If you've ever wondered at which cycle of the moon you’re supposed to spread manure produced by your guinea pigs, this is the place for you.

The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.

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

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

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.