Places IrajV Wants to Go

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

These overlooked ruins give an intimate look at the Inca Empire's urban planning prowess.

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

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

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

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

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

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

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

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

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

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

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

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

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

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

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

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