Places Alpy Wants to Go

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.

These overlooked ruins give an intimate look at the Inca Empire's urban planning prowess.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.