Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

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.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.