Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

An open-air gallery and garden in North Lebanon with plans to continue growing.

Lebanon's highest point offers expansive views, martian terrains, and eerie ski lifts.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

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

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

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

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

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

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.