This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.

This roadside memorial pays homage to Argentina's Outlaw Saint.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This small island off the coast of Uruguay hosts the largest colony of sea lions and fur seals in the southern hemisphere.

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

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

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

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.