This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

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

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.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

The world's most remote airport.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

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

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.