Places vijayhm Wants to Go

Monumental paintings, discovered in a Mexican cathedral in 1957, depict the deaths of some friars in Japan.

The ruins of the humble house of one of Mexico's most iconic revolutionaries.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.

This 16th-century missionary site features Catholic murals, stone carvings, and fortress-like architecture.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

The 19th-century hacienda house is filled with Aztec sculptures.

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

This century-old museum showcases New Mexico’s history through arts and crafts.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

The country’s largest collection of southwestern jewelry, along with contemporary Native American art.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.