Colombia

An underground neo-Gothic cathedral carved 180 metres below the surface of a working salt mine at Zipaquirá, created by Polish miners over eleven years and considered one of the most remarkable examples of devotional architecture built entirely underground.

A 16th-century Spanish colonial walled city on the Caribbean coast, Cartagena's stone ramparts and baroque architecture have survived pirate sieges and independence wars to become one of Latin America's most evocative historic districts.

The Lost City of the Tayrona, a pre-Columbian urban settlement in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, built by the Tairona people between the 9th and 16th centuries and reached today only by multi-day jungle treks.

A UNESCO World Heritage site in the cloud forests of Huila containing the largest collection of pre-Columbian religious monuments in South America: massive carved statues and tombs of the San Agustín culture that flourished from the 1st to 8th centuries CE.

A cloud forest valley in the Colombian coffee region, home to the world's tallest palm species and the wax palm, Colombia's national tree, set against Andean mountain scenery that defines the visual identity of the zona cafetera.

A perfectly preserved colonial town in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, built around one of the largest entirely cobblestone plazas in South America, its whitewashed facades and red-tile roofs unchanged since the 16th century.