Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

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

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

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

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."

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

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

Its exhibits are dedicated to educating the public about state terrorism in Mexico.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

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