This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

A tidal bore with its own festival.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

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

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

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

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.