This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

This Oaxacan town is known for its colorful fantastical creatures hand-carved by local artisans.

This exquisite example of early colonial architecture remains unfinished almost 500 years after construction began.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

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

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

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.

This singular Mexican structure is considered a masterpiece of the Tapatía architectural school.

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.