An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.