Valparaiso, Chile
Cementerio Numero 3 de Playa Ancha
Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.
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Valparaiso, Chile
Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.
Valparaiso, Chile
This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.
Laguna Diamante, Argentina
A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.
Puno, Peru
On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.
Puno, Peru
These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.
Arequipa, Peru
Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Chucuito Province, Peru
Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.
Manu, Peru
Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.
Lima, Peru
The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.
Casma District, Peru
The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.
Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
Chivay, Peru
Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.
Zaña, Peru
After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.
Finstown, Scotland
Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.
Stromness, Scotland
Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."
Kerch, Ukraine
This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.
Liddel, Scotland
This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.
Lambayeque, Peru
The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.
Chamis, Peru
Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.
Urubamba, Peru
These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Lima, Peru
Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.
Peru
An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."