Places LongDayswithJenny Wants to Go

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

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

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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

A colorful "forest" made entirely from three tons of recycled plastic waste.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.