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Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

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

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

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

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

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

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

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.

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

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

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

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

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

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