Paramaribo
This is the biggest mosque in the Caribbean. The current building was completed in 1984.
Paramaribo
This is the biggest mosque in the Caribbean. The current building was completed in 1984.
Colonia del Sacramento
This dinky 17th-century stone house has a small sampling of French and Catalan tilework.
Rio de Janeiro State
Founded in 1953, this is one of Brazil's largest and most highly regarded universities.
Coastal Patagonia
This newish multistory museum documents the life of ex-president Juan Domingo Perón.
Capilla del Señor de la Cruz de Colquepata
Lake Titicaca
This tangerine-colored chapel is located at the start of the trail to Cerro Calvario.
Machu Picchu
Little is known about these mysterious ruins, located opposite the Principal Temple.
Cochabamba
This church, built in 1875, combines neoclassical, baroque and Byzantine elements.
Riohacha
Built in 1937, this impressive wooden pier is lovely for a stroll late in the day.
Around Medellín
The 1828 Iglesia de Jesús Nazareno is usually open around 7pm for evening Mass.
Southern Patagonia
Great hiking and mountain biking through dense lenga and coihue, 8km from town.
Brazil
This beautifully blue-tiled old house sits in front of the Iglesia NS do Carmo.
Amazon Basin
Local naval base set, strangely enough, several blocks away from the river.
Trujillo
Iglesia de San Agustín has a finely gilded high altar and dates from 1558.
Brazil
An imposing twin-towered church, the Basílica NS das Neves dates to 1586.
Monumento a Los Héroes del Chaco
Uyuni
This monument is dedicated to the fallen in the brutal Chaco War.
Monumento a los Héroes de Iquique
Valparaíso
A subterranean mausoleum paying tribute to Chile's naval martyrs.
Cali & Southwest Colombia
This church is noted for its elaborate wooden spiral staircase.
Mendoza & the Central Andes
Church, built in 1952, fronting Plaza San Martín.
Lima
The now notorious Museo de Oro del Perú, a private museum, was a Lima must-see until 2001, when a study revealed that 85% of the museum’s metallurgical…
North Coast
The town of Huaura, opposite Huacho, is where José de San Martín is said to have first proclaimed Peru’s independence a full six months before his famous…
Bogotá
The Jesuits began this iconic church in 1610 and, although opened for worship in 1635, it was not completed until their expulsion in 1767. It was the…
Lima
The cornflower-blue Casa de Oquendo is a ramshackle turn-of-the-19th-century house (in its time, the tallest in Lima) with a creaky lookout tower that, on…
Flora and Fauna Itaipú Binacional
Paraguay
In the creation of the Itaipú Dam, the dam company was obliged to set up a series of eight private reserves that now protect the last remnants of the Alto…
Lima
This landmark building is the residence of the Archbishop of Lima, and the administrative headquarters of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima. No…