The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

This highly decorated dam is one of Guanajuato's most unexpectedly beautiful public works.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Inside this gallery is amazing folk art from across Mexico.

This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.

An artist's suburban abode looks like an architectural fever dream.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

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

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

Known as one of the most famous parks in Honduras.

Mesoamerican monoliths and zoomorphic stones covered in royal visages, ancient mythology, and grand celestial events.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.