Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Villa de Leyva
This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.
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Villa de Leyva, Colombia
This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.
Guatavita, Colombia
The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.
Cali, Colombia
A scalable map of Colombia with the bonus of a butterfly house.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.
Las Palmas, Peru
A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.
Pasco, Peru
Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.
Lima, Peru
Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.
Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
Lima, Peru
The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.
Urubamba, Peru
These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
Peru
These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.
Cusco, Peru
Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.
Unyun pruwinsya, Peru
With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.
Envigado, Colombia
This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.
Bogotá, Colombia
Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.
Choco, Colombia
Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.
Cabrera, Colombia
The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.
Inzá, Colombia
This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.
Bogotá, Colombia
Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.
Cartagena, Colombia
An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.