Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

What better place to learn about the beautiful game than an actual soccer ball-shaped building?

This centuries-old mine remained hidden beneath a hotel bar until 2013.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.

These nearly 500-year-old scenes are largely faded by the ravages of time, yet still maintain their power to horrify.

Local lore claims this rocky cape hides a lost Aztec treasure.

The 19th-century hacienda house is filled with Aztec sculptures.

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

A giant Jesus statue watches over the city of Saltillo from the top of a mountain.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

Catch a glimpse of local, native wildlife at this zoo dedicated to conservation and education.

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

This baroque wonder is filled with a trove of artistic treasures.

On a picturesque lake island, a massive, “broken” crucifixion has become a popular pilgrimage destination.

The population of Southeast Asian primates was introduced to Mexico in the 1970s.

The remains of a centuries-old water system that inspired local legends of secret tunnels.

This grand yet little-visited tomb seems almost carved into the hill it sits on.

A mysterious, ancient collection of pre-Hispanic petroglyphs hidden deep in the Mexican desert.

An incredible little museum of interior design full of artifacts collected from around the world.

The grounds of this former dairy hacienda now contain an entire town inspired by Tuscany, Italy.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

This subterranean passage reveals the city's mining history as well as its legendary terrors.

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