The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

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

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

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