Known as the other Machu Picchu, Choquequirao ("Cradle of Gold") is preferred by serious hikers who enjoy the untamed nature of the trails. Remoteness and inaccessibility have kept most potential... »

Natural Wonders, Cultures and Civilizations , Incredible Ruins | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

Known as keshwa chaca, this is the only remaining example of the Incan handwoven bridges once common in the Incan road system. Made of woven grass, the bridge spans 118 feet and hangs 220 feet... »

Architectural Oddities, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

On Lake Titicaca, one ancient people, the Uros, live on islands made of living reeds that float around the lake. The Uros people have been living on the lake for hundreds of years—they were... »

Anomalous Islands, Lost Tribes, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Henry and Dylan

In the early 1990s, mountaineering guide Jose Luis Delgado Mamani was exploring the Peruvian countryside when he came across an area where the rock had been smoothed to a flat surface and adorned... »

Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and wythe

In 1976 NASA satellite photograph number C-S11-32W071-03 showed something very odd in the middle of southeast Peru's dense jungle: evenly spaced pyramid like objects lined up in seemingly neat... »

Geological Oddities, Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes | Edited by Dylan

For almost a century, the mummified remains of the conquistador Francisco Pizarro were on display in a glass casket in the Cathedral of Lima, Peru. The remains were visited by Catholic and Spanish... »

Relics and Reliquaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Curious Places of Worship, Dead Explorers | Edited by Annetta, wythe and others

Cusco, at 11,000 feet the mountain weather is kaleidoscopic, and the Inca tradition is palpably present. Cusco is every single thing that Santa Fe, New Mexico would like to be - magnificently... »

Intriguing Environs, Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow, A Facebook user and others

The primary instrument at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory is an incoherent scatter radar, a type of atmospheric probe of which there are only a handful in the world. While your ordinary radar... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor

The Nazca lines are legendary. Stretching across 400 square miles of high arid plateau are drawings of hundreds of figures. They range from giant spiders to vast geometric shapes to enormous... »

Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan