Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

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

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

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.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

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

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

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

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

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

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.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

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

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

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