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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A mysterious architectural gem in one of the most elegant areas of Buenos Aires.

Trash-filled shrines to an unofficial saint known for her endless breast milk dot the highways of Argentina.

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

The narrowest house in Buenos Aires is less than 10 feet wide.

A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

One family's mission to exemplify sustainability took on a whole new life as a surprisingly beautiful home.

An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

The clients of these mysterious hand-crafted funeral cars took their last ride in style.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

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

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.