The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

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

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

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

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.