This huge green space packed with activities will make you forget you're in the middle of the Ecuadorian capital.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

Since the 1700s, this old barrel has acted as a post box that relies on the kindness of travelers.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.

Home of the "true" equator.

This Ecuadorian cemetery is home to a jaw-dropping topiary wonderland.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

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

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

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

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.