Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

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

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

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

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

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

These striking ruins of a castle resemble a ship's stern.