Places Edited by Karen Catchpole

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

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

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

Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.

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

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

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

Death road of Bolivia.