Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

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

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.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

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

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

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

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

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

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.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.