This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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 mysteriously shaped boulder may have been used for human sacrifice in ancient times.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

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