Places philippe gonzalvez Wants to Go

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

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

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

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

The hottest place on the planet.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.