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.

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

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

Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

A small, emotionally charged room inside the Mario Testino Museum dedicated to Princess Diana and one famous photo shoot.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

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

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Once the center of food production for this small town.

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In the recreated studio of a visionary artist, a stone that may be more than meets the eye.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.