Places R Sevens Wants to Go

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

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

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

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

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

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

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

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

A beautiful museum filled with thousands of chairs.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

A local workshop makes Japanese-style paper out of everything from papyrus to pineapple leaves.