This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

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

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

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

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

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.

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