Home of the "true" equator.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

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

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

A desert that evokes the surreal.