Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

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

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

This beautiful and unmissable little museum is full of fascinating artifacts from Mesoamerica's great civilizations.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

The underground mall's skylights look like they could be part of a spaceship.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

Trek through the jungle on a boat and a swinging bridge and you'll be rewarded with these refreshing, if pungent, mineral pools.

Concrete construction materials turned into a fashionable capsule hotel in rural Mexico.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

During its heyday, the massive estate boasted its own railroad station and post office.

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

A hacienda that features all things uniquely Yucatán.

Found down a long dirt road, a sacred Mexican cenote and 18th-century hacienda remain hidden.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

This series of waterfalls tumble into a radiantly blue river.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

This warehouse-gallery-shop hybrid showcases Mexican craftwork at its best.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.