Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.