Places stonoceno Wants to Go

An ancient tower built during Roman times as a lookout post still stands to this day.

An elaborately decorated house sits on an otherwise quiet street.

Teeny tiny hotel on the coast of the Canary Islands.

A 12th century church completely covered in shells.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

Whether they are bulls or pigs, these ancient animal sculptures are fascinating relics.

Fascinating exhibits of prehistoric and ancient artifacts displayed with a uniquely modern touch.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

The odd cement nubs littering this Spanish square are actually the entrances to a series of buried silos.

The world's most elegant power lines.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

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

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

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

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

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

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

In a town known for its large hats, this one is the biggest.