Places kbk Wants to Go

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

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

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

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

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

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

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.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

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

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.