The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

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

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

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

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

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

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

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

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

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.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

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.

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

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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.