Destination Highlight: HD Walking Harbour Tour & Tomorrow Museum

Visit the new Rio de Janeiro harbor area, which contains museums, churches, cultural centers, shops, and restaurants, as well as the Conde Waterfront Park, Rio's newest attraction. Part of the Olympic Games legacy, this once-rundown area has been transformed and a promenade now crosses the city's oldest neighborhoods, reclaiming the area for pedestrians. See the largest wall mural graffiti in the world, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, and visit a historic area, the Pedra do Sal, originally built as a slave village. It retains a special significance for locals and visitors of African descent and is the birthplace of samba. Visit the Monastery of São Bento - an historic monastery located on Morro de São Bento, in the city center of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one of the main monuments of colonial art of the city and the country. Continue to the Museum of Tomorrow, opened in December 2015, which ranks as one of the world's most extraordinary buildings. With solar spines that bristle above and a fan-like skylight below, it is designed to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava says his design was inspired by the bromeliads in Rio's Botanical Gardens. Mixing science and art, the institution devotes itself to the need for change if mankind is to avoid climate disaster, environmental degradation, and social collapse.