Located outside Medellín, this Colombian park focuses on conservation and sustainability.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

This city park wants you to take your shoes off.

In the heart of Medellín, an artsy urban complex sets the stage for demonstrations and protests.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

A museum of memories in what was once one of the most violent cities in the world.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

The monument marks where Simón Bolívar and his Spanish adversary Pablo Morillo met to have a drink together.

This iconic pavilion in Barquisimeto has a roof made from 16 “petals” that open and close depending on the weather.

This unique depiction of the Virgin Mary may be the tallest kinetic art sculpture in the world.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

The world's tallest slum.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.

One of the most iconic sculptures in Caracas looks like a large orange ball suspended in the air.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Like something out of a pulp adventure, this abandoned plane wreck is slowly being retaken by the Caribbean jungle.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.