Mayan in Mexico

This historic, pentagon-shaped fort houses the City Museum.

This city's cultural center is in a restored Spanish colonial home from the 1800s.

It might look like a doghouse, but this small structure was actually built to house a spirit from Maya mythology.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

These winged Maya figures are the subject of speculation and conspiracies.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

The Acropolis of this little-visited Mayan archaeological site offers great views of Chiapas’s Lake District.

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

This isolated Maya cemetery in Chiapas is distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.