These colonial murals are a fascinating hybrid of Spanish and Indigenous aesthetics.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

The artwork detailing the city's history features a few controversial characters.

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

The former headquarters of a leader in the Mexican Revolution, and the site of an often-reproduced image.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

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

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

The archeological ruins of the ancient fortified city of the mysterious Teotenanca civilization.

The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.