Places irma Wants to Go

Legend says the building's unusual features were added at the request of a paranoid president.

This abandoned convent keeps the tomb of a legendary beheaded princess.

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

A sprawling network of century-old subterranean catacombs lies beneath a nondescript suburban home.

Southern Mexico under the influence of mushrooms, ceremony and celebrity.

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

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

The former home of the famed revolutionary Pancho Villa is now a museum in his honor.

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

A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.

The walls of a colonial-era fort encircle a small, tropical assortment of plant life.

A historic cemetery doubles as a museum containing hundreds of unique tombs sculpted by a single artist.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

From Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego, you won't find any lighthouse higher than this one.

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

This highly decorated dam is one of Guanajuato's most unexpectedly beautiful public works.

In Mexico, an abandoned Scottish-looking castle stands as a tribute to love.

Colonial architecture meets urban art in this sprawling open-air gallery.

A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.

Still standing despite its considerable slant, this tilted lighthouse has become a local symbol of resilience.

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

Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.

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

This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.