The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

Volcanically heated hot springs.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

On a small Puerto Rican island, banks of secret naval bunkers lie abandoned and filled with piles of office equipment.