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

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.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

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

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

The stoutest tree in the world.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.