These egg-shaped buildings constructed by Jesuits house a quaint museum in the Andes.

The site of detentions and torture under the Pinochet regime in Chile is now a memorial.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

This rusty hull was used as fighter plane target practice during the Falklands War.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

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

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

Monkeys inhabit the lush forest surrounding ancient Mayan ruins once considered sacred.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

The development of this cliffside waterpark is representative of Mexico's history of co-op tourism developments.

This spot along the 23.5 degree north parallel marks the northern boundary of the tropics.

Once a Catholic mission, this small town tucked between the ocean and the mountains is now a magical spot for art and history lovers.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.