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

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

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

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

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

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

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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

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

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.