Places danjoyce1 Wants to Go

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

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

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

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

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

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.

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

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

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.