Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

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

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

In a corner of Santiago's largest market, this inventive Mapuche eatery shows "ancestral cuisine" doesn't have to mean old-fashioned.

A rotating nine-course menu offers delicious deep-dives into the foodways of Chilean agricultural valleys.

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

The world's most remote airport.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

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

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

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

These egg-shaped buildings constructed by Jesuits house a quaint museum in the Andes.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.

These small sculptures pay homage to the lovable star of an iconic Argentine comic strip.