This monolith is El Peñón de Guatapé in Antioquia, Colombia. A staircase with more than 700 steps leads to the summit. The ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. From a distance, this 10 million-ton stone towering 650 feet above the ...

Just two hours from Medellín, the historic lakefront town of Guatapé has always had a magnetic pull on locals and visitors ...

A view from an airplane window as it flies over Colombia’s central state of Antioquia is the only comparison to the feeling of making it to “the top of the rock with the best view in the world” — as ...

From China to Colombia, steps carved by ancient civilizations to rickety stairs on the sides of mountains, these are the world's longest and scariest stairways. These are only be attempted by those ...

From China to Colombia, and steps carved by ancient civilisations to rickety stairs on the sides of mountains, these are the world's longest and scariest steps. These are only be attempted by those ...