On the side of the Pan American ... ground level the Nazca Lines are barely discernible, which is why the highway, built in the 1920s, passes straight through the figure of a lizard.

NAZCA, Peru — Standing inside ... to climb up a metal observation tower beside the Pan-American Highway, which itself cuts through the site -- and an unlucky lizard figure.

and lizards Mario Olaechea of Peru's National Culture Institute said that water from the unusually heavy rains washed off the nearby Pan-American highway had pushed sand and clay onto part of the ...