This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

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

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.

Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

Ecuador’s historic seat of government has been quietly looted in recent decades, and no one knows how or by whom.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

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?