This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

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

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

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

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

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

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

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

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.