A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The oldest skyscraper of Europe now stands dwarfed by the surrounding structures.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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

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

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

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.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

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

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

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

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

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.