Places kcapon3 Wants to Go

An outdoor gallery of sculptures chiseled from a unique stone.

Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.

An extraterrestrial-themed art exhibit makes the perfect place to crash-land while interacting with Andean culture and history.

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

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

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

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

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

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

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

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

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

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

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

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

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