Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

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

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

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

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

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

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

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

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.

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