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Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The Peruvian Andes are a center of hummingbird diversity, and this garden offers an opportunity to see more than 30 species of hummingbirds.

This 16th-century monastery was founded to cloister the daughters of wealthy local families.

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

Bathe in these natural hot springs located high in the Andes Mountains.

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.

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

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

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

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

The outside of this exposed Moche pyramid is covered with striking colorful adobe friezes.

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

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

This set of mysterious petroglyphs in the Peruvian jungle could shed light on centuries-old activities in the region.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

A kitschy Italian medieval-style castle incongruously located amidst one of the most historic towns in the Peruvian Amazon.