Places Alpy Wants to Go

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.