Places eosstar Wants to Go

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

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

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

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

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.