Places vijayhm Wants to Go

Inside one of Guadalajara's oldest houses, you can find puppets and foam models of the city's missing buildings.

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.

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

One of Mexico’s historic pottery-producing towns is home to a museum showcasing the craft.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

This exquisite example of early colonial architecture remains unfinished almost 500 years after construction began.

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

The stoutest tree in the world.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

With more than 30 ingredients, chef Cecilia Florian’s stupendously complex, harmonious moles are a masterclass in layering flavors.

Bold, unapologetically spicy Mixtecan flavors are on the menu here.

Step past a rainbow of Oaxacan nightshades for a menu of regional moles worthy of weddings and funerals.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

This bakery forgoes industrial wheat in favor of locally harvested grains.

Dine on funerary beans alongside off-duty lucha libre wrestlers at this legume-centric spot near Museo Rufino Tamayo.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A glamorous octogenarian chef-owner serves rare Istmeño specialties in a tropical garden.

This isolated Maya cemetery in Chiapas is distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

This museum in Chiapas honors Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, a key figure of the Zapatista movement.

Historic poems about the noble act of defecating have been preserved on the wall of this old convent.