Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

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

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

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

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

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

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

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.