This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.

What can compare to the comforting sound of 10,000 toilets running?

9,000 years of carnal history is on display at China's original Museum of Sex.

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

A memorial to those who died at the hands of the Kuomintang while fighting for communism in China.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

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

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

This bridge dates back to the 9th century and allows visitors to walk an ancient path amid modern industrial trappings.

The family compound and final resting place for the philosopher, Confucius, and over 100,000 of his descendants.

A clay house decorated with ceramic chips in Tianjin.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.