Places Nox Wants to Go

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

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

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

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

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

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

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

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.