If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.