This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

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

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

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

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

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

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

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

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

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.