Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

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

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

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

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