This outdoor sculpture gallery is a modern-day homage to Andean culture and history.

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

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

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

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

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.

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

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

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

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

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

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

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

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

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.

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

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

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.