Peru
Choquequirao, Peru
White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."
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Peru
White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."
Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
Berlin, Germany
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Cape May, New Jersey
Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.
Ica, Peru
Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.
Lima, Peru
Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.
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.
Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
Tambopata, Peru
The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.
Lima, Peru
Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.
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.
Peru
An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."
Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru
These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
Luya, Peru
An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Seoul, South Korea
South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Puthukkudiyiruppu, Sri Lanka
Remains of military submarines built in secret jungle factories by the Tamil guerrillas' naval wing.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Zhanaarka District, Kazakhstan
The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.