These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.