Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.

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

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

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

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

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

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

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

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

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

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

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.