Places Will Conant Wants to Go

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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

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

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.

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

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

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

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

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

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

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

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

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

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.