Places tarajso Wants to Go

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

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

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

The enigmatic stone has towered over a Northern Ireland town for thousands of years.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.