The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

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

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

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.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

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

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

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

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.