Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

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

An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

One man's personal collection of more than 2,000 creepy-crawlies from around the world.

A mysterious, ancient collection of pre-Hispanic petroglyphs hidden deep in the Mexican desert.

The population of Southeast Asian primates was introduced to Mexico in the 1970s.

These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.

This dome-topped chapel houses the most-venerated religious figure in Yanhuitlán.

This church turned museum is dedicated to the last Mexica ruler, whose remains were allegedly buried under the altar.

At this hillside site that was once home to a Mixtec community, you'll find ruins with a view.

This eerily opulent residential museum is home to a haunting local legend.

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

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

This gorgeous stretch of coastline is home to beautiful views and centuries-old rock art.

This concrete amphitheater offers an unforgettable view of one of Mexico's most beautiful canyons.

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

Visit this small Mexican church to pray to a mushroom that is supposedly marked with the image of Christ.

Amid lush greenery, a man-made channel peppered with graffiti that dates back to 1881.