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

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

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

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

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

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

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

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

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.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

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

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.