Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

A no-frills, DIY nature preserve manned by a U.S. expat who has dedicated his life to turtle conservation.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

Take a ferry across the Paraíba river in one of these 1980s bus-turned-boats.

A place of enchantment where stories of the past seem to come to life.

A beautiful, abandoned farming headquarters overtaken by nature and graffiti.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

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

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

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

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

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

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

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