See the Spider Necklace of Sipan

Inca terraces and villages along the Urubamba between Cusco and Machu Picchu — Ollantaytambo, Pisac market and the Moray circles.

Canyon wall stencilled with hundreds of hands up to 9,000 years old — the oldest art in South America, and a UNESCO site.

Tutankhamun’s gold mask, royal mummies and 120,000 pharaonic treasures in the 1902 museum on Tahrir Square.

Stand among the cloud-wrapped ruins of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched high above Peru's Sacred Valley

Walk among the 5,000-year-old pyramids of Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas

Explore Kuélap, the walled cloud-fortress of the Chachapoya — older than Machu Picchu and nearly empty

Descend into the underground galleries of Chavín de Huántar to meet the Lanzón, a 3,000-year-old fanged god

Walk the sculpted mud corridors of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city ever built