Places stonoceno Wants to Go

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

A small, emotionally charged room inside the Mario Testino Museum dedicated to Princess Diana and one famous photo shoot.

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

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

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

One of the world's largest pianos is displayed in the workshop of the man who built it as a teenager.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.