Places remcrae Wants to Go

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

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

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

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

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

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

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

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

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

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.