An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

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.

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

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

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

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

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

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

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

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

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.