2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru stand the ruins of Machu Picchu, a pre-Columbian Inca site rediscovered in 1911 by archaeologist Hiram Bingham.
This Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people.
500 imposing statues, carved in stone, stand as proof that pre-Hispanic cultures inhabited this region of Colombia for over fifteen centuries.