Landmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
90 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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Argentina's national fine arts museum, open since 1896, with the country's largest collection of Argentine art alongside works by Goya, Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
View details — Museo Nacional de Bellas ArtesAttraction
Colombia's oldest museum, founded in 1823 and housed in a former panopticon prison, with more than 20,000 pieces of archaeology, art, ethnography and history.
View details — Museo Nacional de ColombiaAttraction
A vast forest park on the eastern slopes above Medellín, reached by Metrocable, with pre-Hispanic stone paths, hiking and cycling trails and a food and craft market.
View details — Parque ArvíAttraction
Founded by the future King João VI in 1808, Rio's botanical garden holds about 6,500 species and a famous avenue of 134 royal palms.
View details — Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (Jardim Botânico)Attraction
A Jesuit church, cloister and museum in the walled city where the remains of Saint Peter Claver, defender of enslaved Africans, lie beneath the main altar.
View details — Santuario de San Pedro ClaverAttraction
Medellín's neo-Romanesque brick cathedral on Parque de Bolívar, begun in 1875 and built from about 1.12 million bricks to a design by Charles Émile Carré.
View details — Catedral Metropolitana de MedellínAttraction
The neoclassical cathedral on Plaza de Bolívar, built between 1807 and 1823 by Domingo de Petrés, holds the tomb of the city's founder and Colombia's largest organ.
View details — Catedral Primada de BogotáAttraction
An Augustinian convent founded in the early 1600s on the summit of the Cerro de La Popa, with a cloister, a religious museum and panoramic views over the city.
View details — Convento de la PopaAttraction
A modern museum of Latin American art opened in 2001, with works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral and Antonio Berni.
View details — MALBAAttraction
Brazil's most famous football stadium, opened for the 1950 World Cup, host of the 2014 final and home ground of Flamengo and Fluminense.
View details — Maracanã StadiumAttraction
A compact museum of pre-Columbian art from the Museo Larco collection, in a restored colonial mansion on Plaza de las Nazarenas, open daily until 22:00.
View details — Museo de Arte Precolombino (MAP)Attraction
Opened in 2010, this museum opposite Quinta Normal metro documents the human rights violations committed in Chile under the 1973 to 1990 military dictatorship.
View details — Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos HumanosAttraction
An interactive museum built into the stands of the Pacaembu stadium, tracing how football became part of Brazilian life across 15 rooms and 6,900 square metres.
View details — Museu do FutebolAttraction
A vast pre-Hispanic sanctuary in the Lurín valley about 40 km south-east of Lima, used for some 1,300 years and crowned by the Inca Temple of the Sun.
View details — Pachacamac Archaeological SanctuaryAttraction
A Dominican church and convent founded in the 1530s, with the tombs of Saint Rose of Lima and Saint Martin de Porres and cloisters lined with 17th-century tiles.
View details — Basilica and Convent of Santo DomingoAttraction
The neoclassical cathedral on the Plaza de Armas, begun in 1748 and completed in 1906, with three naves, a 1754 Jesuit organ and the crypt of Santiago's archbishops.
View details — Catedral Metropolitana de SantiagoAttraction
The Banco de la República's free museum on Plaza de Bolívar, displaying Zenú goldwork, ceramics, bone and shell objects from Colombia's Caribbean region.
View details — Museo del Oro ZenúAttraction
A Loire-inspired castle begun in 1930 in El Poblado, now a house museum with 14 furnished rooms, French-style gardens and daily guided tours in English.
View details — Museo El CastilloAttraction
The University of São Paulo's history museum in an 1890s palace near the spot where independence was proclaimed, reopened and enlarged in 2022 after nine years of work.
View details — Museu do IpirangaAttraction
A 100-metre office tower on Avenida de Mayo, completed in 1923 and designed around Dante's Divine Comedy, crowned by a lighthouse.
View details — Palacio Barolo