A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

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

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

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

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

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

A desert that evokes the surreal.

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