One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

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

A desert that evokes the surreal.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

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

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

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

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

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

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

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

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

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Death road of Bolivia.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

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.