Places stonoceno Wants to Go

Nature's slip and slide.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

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

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

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

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

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

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

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

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