The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

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

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

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

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

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

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

The stoutest tree in the world.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

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

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

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

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

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

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.