After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

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

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

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

A desert that evokes the surreal.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

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

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

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.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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