Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

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

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

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

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

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

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

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.

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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.

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

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.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

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