Places marasta215 Wants to Go

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

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

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This set of mysterious petroglyphs in the Peruvian jungle could shed light on centuries-old activities in the region.

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

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

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

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

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

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

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

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

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

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

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 stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

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

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

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