Legend says this tiny ancient island is the lost ancestral homeland of the Aztecs.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

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

One of the world’s largest cave systems houses legends, concerts, and wondrous rock formations alike.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

Trek through the jungle on a boat and a swinging bridge and you'll be rewarded with these refreshing, if pungent, mineral pools.

Found down a long dirt road, a sacred Mexican cenote and 18th-century hacienda remain hidden.

This series of waterfalls tumble into a radiantly blue river.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.

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

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

The stoutest tree in the world.

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

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

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

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

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A fairytale-like grove with a crystal-clear spring bubbling under the shade of a massive ancient tree.