A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Half curiosity cabinet, half late night hotspot, this Brazilian bar is helping turn a dangerous neighborhood around.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

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

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

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

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

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

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

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

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

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