A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

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

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

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