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.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

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

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

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

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

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

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

A small museum filled with unique fossil finds, including one of the oldest specimens of ground sloths found in Colombia.

Colombia's first concrete structure doubles as a replica of Versaille's Petit Trianon Belvedere and a symbol for development.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

This archaeological museum in an 18th-century mansion showcases the country’s finest examples of pre-Columbian ceramics.

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

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

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.

This narrow street is packed with street vendors and bars selling chicha.