A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

An intriguing antique iron Ferris wheel that most locals are sure was designed by Gustave Eiffel.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

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

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

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

A small, emotionally charged room inside the Mario Testino Museum dedicated to Princess Diana and one famous photo shoot.

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

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

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

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

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

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