Argentina

Brazil – Christ the Redeemer statue

The Galápagos Islands is a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Known for wildlife-viewing. A province of Ecuador. Its isolated terrain shelters a diversity of plant and animal species, many found nowhere else. Charles Darwin visited in 1835, and his observation of Galápagos’ species later inspired his theory of evolution.

Peru

Machu Picchu is an iconic hilltop ruins, an engineering marvel. It is a large 15th-century Inca city featuring numerous structures & terraces. Located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a 7,970 ft mountain ridge and surrounded on three sides by the windy, turbulent Urubamba River some 2,000 feet below.

It is tangible evidence of the urban Inca Empire at the peak of its power and achievement—a citadel of cut stone fit together without mortar so tightly that its cracks still can’t be penetrated by a knife blade.

How to Get There: In 1911 a Peruvian guide led Yale professor Hiram Bingham up a steep mountainside and into the history books as the first Western scholar to lay eyes on the “lost city” of Machu Picchu. While indigenous peoples knew of the site, Peru’s Spanish conquerors never did—a fact which aided Machu Picchu’s isolation, and preservation, over the centuries.On his first trip to the site Hiram Bingham walked for six days. Today many choose to follow in his footsteps by hiking to the ruins on the legendary Inca Trail. It’s an experience like no other, but one no longer necessary. Train trips from Cusco take only a few hours.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/machu-picchu/