Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

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

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

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

Death road of Bolivia.

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

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

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

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Everything from miniature biblical scenes to life-sized statues are almond-based at this sweet and nutty gallery.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

Stone Age solar temple is aligned with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

Originally a meeting place for foreign correspondents and war reporters, the FCC remains an atmospheric spot for sunset drinks in Phnom Penh.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.