The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

Stroll among dozens of statues depicting pre-Columbian kings, gods, and supernatural beings.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

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

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

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.

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.