During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

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

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

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

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

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

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

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

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

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

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

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

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

Ecuador's first Catholic church was built by Spanish conquistadors in 1534.