Places andresvargas Wants to Go

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

This archeological site hidden behind Teotihuacán's pyramids shelters 1600-year-old murals.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

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

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

A curious museum of old video game consoles hidden in the back of a store.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

This temple located on a vertical drop of a rocky mountain houses relics from the Song Dynasty.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

A delightful architectural wonder awaits on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.