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Santa Terezinha, Brazil

Chapada das Mesas National Park

High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cemitério São João Batista

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.
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Santo André, Brazil

Paranapiacaba Train Station

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
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Brazil

Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara

Site full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.
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Aveiro, Brazil

Fordlândia

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
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Pernambuco, Brazil

Old Petrolandia Church

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

Viaduct Petrobras

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Largo do Boticário

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

World's Largest Cashew Tree

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

Parque Lage

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

Gruta Do Lago Azul (Blue Lake Grotto)

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
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Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil

Vale da Lua

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
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São Paulo, Brazil

Crypt of the São Paulo Cathedral

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.
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Vila de São Jorge, Brazil

Glowing Termite Mounds of Emas National Park

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

Cementerio General de Santiago

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

The Copiapó

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.
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Antofagasta, Chile

James Bond Rocks

Giant fake rocks that shielded Bond lie in wait for their next action scene.
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Taltal, Chile

Kitson Meyer Locomotive

The antique vehicle is a preserved relic of Chile's nitrate mining industry.
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Villaseca, Chile

Entre Cordillera Restobar Solar

At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.
Added by Rafael Tonon
Toconao, Chile

Toconao Bell Tower

This 18th-century tower is locally iconic.
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Viña del Mar, Chile

Wulff Castle

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

Bismarck Tower

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.
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Coquimbo, Chile

Church of Guayacán

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
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Valdivia, Chile

O'Brien Submarine Museum

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.
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