Visit Caral

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

Watch the sun rise along the Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, a 2,300-year-old solar calendar in the desert

Set eyes on Río Abiseo, the UNESCO park almost nobody may enter — cloud-forest ruins and a monkey back from the dead

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

Stand under the chullpas of Sillustani — pre-Inca burial towers built finer than the Incas managed

More pyramids than all of Egypt.

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

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