From 100 Facts for 100 Years of Machu Picchu - #32

By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor

32. Christopher Columbus, of course, though he discovered Asia; Hiram Bingham thought he discovered the "Lost City of the Incas."  Both were wrong.

Though Bingham was looking for the city where the Incas took refuge from the Spanish, Vicabamba - Machu Picchu is now generally referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas"