The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

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

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

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

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

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

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

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

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

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

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

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

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

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

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

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.