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

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

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

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

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

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

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

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

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.