This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

Stroll among dozens of statues depicting pre-Columbian kings, gods, and supernatural beings.

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.

In a town known for its large hats, this one is the biggest.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

This archaeological museum in one of Peru’s most intriguing regions exhibits ancient artifacts from the Nazca civilization.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

A Christian monastery stands on what was once a holy Incan temple.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

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

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.