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

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

The unique collection of gifts includes braids of human hair, a spoon, and a Virgin made of bread.

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

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

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.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

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

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

The stoutest tree in the world.

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

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.