El ALTO, BOLIVIA
It is said that at the dawn of the Incan empire, the conquerers arrived at the altiplano following legends of a lost civilization, what we now know as the culture of the Tiwanaku. Taken by their precision stone carving, preserved almost as it was at the time of its abandonment thanks to uniquely frigid and dry climactic conditions, the Incan pressed forward on a quest to refine the engineering marvel - laying stonework across a continent.