The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Death road of Bolivia.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

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

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

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

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

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

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

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.

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

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

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

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.