This collection of promotional calendars preserves a staple of mid-century Mexican pop art.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

This ornate church designed by a self-taught architect is an eclectic masterpiece in the heart of Central Mexico.

Mexico City decorates its facades with extravagant floral arrangements every year.

A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.

A bullet-scarred monastery chronicles Mexico's turbulent history of foreign invasions.

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

A curious museum of old video game consoles hidden in the back of a store.

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

The Acropolis of this little-visited Mayan archaeological site offers great views of Chiapas’s Lake District.

This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

This popular cave pool is truly magical, despite the crowds.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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