Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

The Peruvian Andes are a center of hummingbird diversity, and this garden offers an opportunity to see more than 30 species of hummingbirds.

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

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

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

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

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

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

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

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

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.