At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

In a town known for its large hats, this one is the biggest.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

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

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?