Places danieldixon Wants to Go

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

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

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

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.

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

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

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

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A little known Colombian theme park of giant curiosities.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

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

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.