Puno, Peru
The Uros People of Lake Titicaca
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
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Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
Puno, Peru
On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Cusco, Peru
Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?
Cusco, Peru
A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.
Cusco, Peru
Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.
Cusco, Peru
Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.
Cusco, Peru
This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.
Budapest, Hungary
This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Aladdin, Wyoming
The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.
Chadron, Nebraska
America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.