An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

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

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

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

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

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

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

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

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

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

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

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.