Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

A spectrum of colors awaits visitors to one of Mexico's most gorgeous bodies of water.

According to legend, this hacienda was abandoned because of a curse.

This colorful and quirky set of pegasus sculptures celebrate the works of poet Zbigniew Herbert.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

A statue commemorating a beloved stray dog who was adopted by the entire neighborhood where he lived.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

A stained-glass window from the 15th century offers a vision of the end of the world.