Places rachaelandthemullets Wants to Go

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

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

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

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

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.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

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.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

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

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

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

A mysterious submerged wall stretches from the coast of Nhon Hai toward Hon Kho Island, emerging from the sea only twice a month.

A mystical-meets-modern mix of centuries-old divination decks and Pokémon cards ready to predict your destiny.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.