Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

In the Manduri reserve of Sao Paulo, you can see the endangered black-horned capuchin monkey up close.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

Half curiosity cabinet, half late night hotspot, this Brazilian bar is helping turn a dangerous neighborhood around.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

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

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

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

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

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

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

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

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

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