Places arappepo Wants to Go

A house once used to feed orphans of a brutal conflict now serves as a museum honoring its victims.

Standing 26 feet high and 13 feet in diameter, is this the world’s smallest volcano?

This walk to the Pacific Ocean is surrounded by modern statues of Mochica Gods.

This outdoor sculpture gallery is a modern-day homage to Andean culture and history.

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

The Peruvian Andes are a center of hummingbird diversity, and this garden offers an opportunity to see more than 30 species of hummingbirds.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

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

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

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

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

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

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.