Places stonoceno Wants to Go

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

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

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

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

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

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

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

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

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

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

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

The stoutest tree in the world.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

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

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

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

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

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.