This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

This walk to the Pacific Ocean is surrounded by modern statues of Mochica Gods.

A 5,000-year-old city in Peru holds the remains of a stunning set of astronomically-aligned pyramids.

The Peruvian Andes are a center of hummingbird diversity, and this garden offers an opportunity to see more than 30 species of hummingbirds.

Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

In this mine all the gold you can carry may not be as sweet of a deal as it sounds.

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

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

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

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

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