Places luciusdonatus Wants to Go

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.

Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

A town half-submerged in volcanic mud has become a pilgrimage site for devotees of one of the tragedy's victims.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

The largest garbage dump in all of Central America is home to a tragic community that make their living from the refuse.

Located in the mountains of Nicaragua, one man has spent most of life beautifying a massive cliff by hand.

The youngest volcano in Central America.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

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

This now-abandoned shopping center in Playa del Carmen was built to resemble a medieval European castle.

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

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.