Mexico City, Mexico
Palace of the Inquisition
This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.
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Mexico City, Mexico
This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.
Mexico City, Mexico
This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.
Mexico City, Mexico
These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.
Mexico City, Mexico
An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.
Malinalco, Mexico
These colonial murals are a fascinating hybrid of Spanish and Indigenous aesthetics.
Mexico City, Mexico
These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.
Mexico City, Mexico
A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.
Guadalajara, Mexico
This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.
San Antonio, Mexico
Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.
León, Mexico
A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.
Santa Ana Chapitiro, Mexico
This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.
Xochicalco, Mexico
The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.
Toluca, Mexico
Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.
Mexico City, Mexico
This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.
García, Mexico
Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.
Mexico City, Mexico
Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.
San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.
Mexico City, Mexico
Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.
Mexico
A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.
San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico
This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.
Champa, Mexico
The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.
Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico
Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.
Puebla, Mexico
The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."
Tulum, Mexico
An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.