One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

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

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

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

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

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

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

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

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

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

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.

A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.