Jadwin, Missouri
Welch Spring Hospital Ruins
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
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Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
St. Louis, Missouri
A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.
Lima, Peru
The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.
Lima, Peru
Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.
Quispicanchi, Peru
The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.
Zaña, Peru
After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.
Cusco, Peru
A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.
Lamas, Peru
A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.
Lima, Peru
A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.
Tambopata, Peru
The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.
Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru
These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.
Lima, Peru
The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.
Provincia de Dos de Mayo, Peru
This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.
Las Palmas, Peru
A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.
Tambopata, Peru
One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.
Huallin, Peru
The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.
Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
Peru
White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."
Urubamba, Peru
These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Urubamba, Peru
Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.
Ninacaca, Peru
A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.
Casma District, Peru
A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.