Places mardigny Wants to Go

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

The ruins of an ancient pyramid built by the mysterious Chupícuaro civilization.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

In the Valley of Morelos lies a mysterious Olmec site with signs of jaguar veneration.

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

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

This series of waterfalls tumble into a radiantly blue river.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

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

You can explore the halls of tombs in the abandoned former capital of the Zapotecs.

Hidden for more than a century, the grave of the Conquistador remains forgotten behind these church walls.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

An unprepossessing stone marks the last resting place of one of the most accomplished Native Americans in history.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

The birthplace of modern China.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.