By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor
36. And what, really, could be? Here's what Hiram Bingham wrote in Harper's Monthly in 1913 about coming upon Machu Picchu. "...Suddenly we found ourselves in the midst of a jungle-covered maze of small and large walls, the ruins of buildings made of blocks of white granite, most carefully cut and beautifully fitted together without cement."
Bingham would go on to write several articles and the books Inca Lands and The Lost City of the Incas regarding his adventures in Peru.
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