There’s a great, hidden museum that not many people goes to in MachuPicchu

For visitors conditioned to the explanatory signs at national parks, one of the strangest things about MachuPicchu is that the site provides virtually no information about the ruins. (This lack does have one advantage—the ruins remain uncluttered.) The excellent Museo de Sitio Manuel Chávez Ballón ($10 entry) fills in many of the blanks about how and why MachuPicchu was built (displays are in English and Spanish), and why the Inca chose such an extraordinary natural location for the citadel. First you have to find the museum, though. It’s inconveniently tucked at the end of a long dirt road near the base of Machu Picchu, about a 30-minute walk from the town of Aguas Calientes