After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

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

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

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

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

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

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.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Massive volcano in the Andes is the farthest point from earth's center.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

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

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

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

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.

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

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