This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

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

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

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

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

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

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

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.