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

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

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

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

A desert that evokes the surreal.

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.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

Natural saunas fed by volcanic heat.

A century-old bathhouse that provides the luxury of warm water to rural Guatemalans.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.