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A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

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

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

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.