Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

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

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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

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

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

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

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

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

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

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

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

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

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

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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.