Places marloesvanweert Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

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

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

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