Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

One of the most historic cemeteries in Quito is an eclectic mix of architectural styles and famous tombs.

An abandoned Ecuadorian prison that once held ex-presidents and notorious con artists is now a carceral museum.

This Ecuadorian cemetery is home to a jaw-dropping topiary wonderland.

It marks the spot where the high-ranking British officer died during the Falklands War.

A small cemetery remembers the British troops who fell during the Falklands War.

A hilltop collection of crosses remembering the hundreds of Argentine troops who fell during the Falklands War.

This haunting ghost ship stands beached in the waters off the coast of the Falkland Islands.

A brick arch is all that remains of this Dutch fort, once a focal point for colonial power struggles in Guyana.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

These spectacular ruins were built by Spanish padres in the 17th century.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

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

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

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.