Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

A close look at the church's walls reveals pieces of Mexico's history.

A park in Mexico offers all the experiences of an illegal border crossing except for one: the border.

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

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

Bright, rebellious indigenous murals dating back to the Spanish Conquest inexplicably cover the walls of this Catholic church.

This exquisite example of early colonial architecture remains unfinished almost 500 years after construction began.

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

The history of this futuristic crypt-turned-temple is as curious as its facade.

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

One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.

The jewel of the museum is a rare tumulus, a funeral decoration from the 18th century.

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

A bullet-scarred monastery chronicles Mexico's turbulent history of foreign invasions.

A striking depiction of Teotihuacan's mysterious "Spider Woman."

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

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

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The Acropolis of this little-visited Mayan archaeological site offers great views of Chiapas’s Lake District.