This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

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

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The stoutest tree in the world.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

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

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Bright, rebellious indigenous murals dating back to the Spanish Conquest inexplicably cover the walls of this Catholic church.

Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

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

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

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

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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