Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

Jumping-off point for a climb up Mt. Everest is the most dangerous airport in the world.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

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

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

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

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

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

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

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.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

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

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

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