Places rbalevine Wants to Go

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

A surprisingly detailed model of the world's most powerful radio telescope.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

A park of winding trails and archaeological sites, offering a rare connection to Quito’s pre-Hispanic past.

This secret museum features saintly relics and the remains of historic figures assassinated in the 19th century.

Ecuador’s historic seat of government has been quietly looted in recent decades, and no one knows how or by whom.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.