One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

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

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

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

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

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

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

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

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

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

This magnificent work of art captures the spirit of the region.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.