A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

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

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

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

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

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

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

An underwater city for the dead.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.