Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

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

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

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.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

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.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

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

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

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

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

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.