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

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

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

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

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

Death road of Bolivia.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

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

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.