Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

World's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of Christ.

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

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

This intriguing museum chronicles the history and impact of immigration in Brazil.

The building that once housed the dictator's secret police is now a museum that documents the history of an oppressive regime and those who fought against it.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

This skyscraper once housed weapons during the revolution and was the scene of two brutal crimes that shocked São Paulo society.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

This necropolis is home to eclectic funerary art and is the final resting place for much of the city's nobility.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.