Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

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

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

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

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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 fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Ecuador’s historic seat of government has been quietly looted in recent decades, and no one knows how or by whom.