Places pleiades Wants to Go

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

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.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.