This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

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

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

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.

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.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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.

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

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.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

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.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.