This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

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

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

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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

Death road of Bolivia.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

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

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

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

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

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

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.