Places HouseAtreides Wants to Go

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

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

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

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.