Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

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

These overlooked ruins give an intimate look at the Inca Empire's urban planning prowess.

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

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

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.

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

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

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

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

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

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

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

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

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

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

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.