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

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

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

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

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

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

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

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

The stoutest tree in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

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

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.