A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

A natural rock bridge towers above the sea.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

A lookout spot for the Andean condor, at the edges of one of the deepest canyons in the world.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

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

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

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

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

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

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