One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.

Known as the site of 'El Dorado,' this mysterious lake is rumored to hold gold beneath its waters.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

Hidden for more than a century, the grave of the Conquistador remains forgotten behind these church walls.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

A narrow, serpentine spit of sand is constantly eroded and rebuilt by competing currents.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

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

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

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.