Built by the Inca in a rugged, isolated, area of Peru, Machu Picchu was discovered by the scientific world when geographer Hiram Bingham reached it in 1911. (Though some local people knew of it ...

The Inca Trail is approximately 26 miles long and leads to one of the most iconic sites in the world: Machu Picchu. Millions ...

While Machu Picchu ... The Tairona people fled during colonial times, leaving the abandoned city hidden from the outside world (though it was still known to local Indigenous tribes) for centuries ...