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

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

How did 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes become so beloved in Paraguay?

A beautiful museum filled with thousands of chairs.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

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

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

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

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

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

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

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

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

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.