What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

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

Instead of using billboards, some people here relay their messages on the side of a mountain.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

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

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

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A ring of soy sauce bottle bases decorate an important Singaporean landmark.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.