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

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

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

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

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

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

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

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

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

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

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

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

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

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

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

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.