The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

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

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

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

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

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

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.