Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

A neo-Gothic castle in the Argentinian countryside.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

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

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

This museum’s collection includes rescued birds, fine art, and a collection of shrunken heads.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

A mummified Spanish monk found in the walls of an Ecuadorian church, alongside a mummified mouse.

This 12-inch-tall wooden sculpture of a winged Virgin Mary has inspired much devotion and countless replicas.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

An abandoned Ecuadorian prison that once held ex-presidents and notorious con artists is now a carceral museum.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.