Places rachaelandthemullets Wants to Go

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

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

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

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

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

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.