Places jonahying Wants to Go

This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.

A quiet alpine lake where hikers pass alpacas and an old brewery.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

A 5,000-year-old city in Peru holds the remains of a stunning set of astronomically-aligned pyramids.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The site of detentions and torture under the Pinochet regime in Chile is now a memorial.

How a lunch counter in Chile became a shrine to the 42nd president of the United States