Places sarahltait Wants to Go

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

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

The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.

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

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

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

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

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.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

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

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

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.