Featured · 01 / 28 Ancient · State of México Teotihuacán The vast city of pyramids the Aztecs later called “the place where the gods were created.” Discover 
Featured · 02 / 28 Ancient · Yucatán Chichén Itzá The Maya city whose pyramid still catches the equinox serpent of light on its steps. Discover 
Featured · 03 / 28 Ancient · Oaxaca Monte Albán A Zapotec capital levelled from a ridge-top, floating above the valley of Oaxaca. Discover 
Featured · 04 / 28 Ancient · Chiapas Palenque The rainforest Maya city of Pakal, where fine stone temples meet the jungle canopy. Discover 
Featured · 05 / 28 Nature · Oaxaca Hierve el Agua Petrified “waterfalls” of mineral springs, a Zapotec bathing and ritual site for millennia. Discover 
Featured · 06 / 28 Sanctuaries · San Luis Potosí Wirikuta The most sacred land of the Wixárika people, endpoint of an ancient pilgrimage across the desert. Discover 
Featured · 07 / 28 Sanctuaries · Mexico City Basílica de Guadalupe The most visited Catholic shrine in the Americas, on a hill that was sacred long before it. Discover 
Featured · 08 / 28 Energy · Morelos Tepoztlán & El Tepozteco A cliff-ringed Pueblo Mágico with a mountaintop pyramid and a long reputation as an energy centre. Discover 
Featured · 09 / 28 Ancient · Quintana Roo Tulum A walled Maya port on a limestone cliff above the Caribbean, and one of the last Maya cities still lived in when Spanish ships first passed by. Discover 
Featured · 10 / 28 Ancient · Yucatán Uxmal A Late Classic Maya capital in the dry Puuc hills, its limestone palaces covered in masks of the rain god Chaac. Discover 
Featured · 11 / 28 Ancient · Campeche Calakmul A vast Maya capital hidden in the Campeche jungle, once the seat of the Snake Kingdom that fought Tikal for control of the lowlands. Discover 
Featured · 12 / 28 Ancient · Puebla Cholula The largest pyramid ever built by volume, now a grass-covered hill topped by a colonial church, with pilgrims still climbing to the summit. Discover 
Featured · 13 / 28 Ancient · Veracruz El Tajín A ruined Gulf Coast city whose Pyramid of the Niches carries one carved recess for every day of the solar year. Discover 
Featured · 14 / 28 Ancient · Oaxaca Mitla A Zapotec city of the dead in Oaxaca, walled in stone mosaic fretwork found nowhere else in Mesoamerica. Discover 
Featured · 15 / 28 Ancient · Mexico City Templo Mayor The great twin temple at the heart of the Aztec capital, buried under Mexico City for centuries and brought back to light in 1978. Discover 
Featured · 16 / 28 Ancient · Quintana Roo Cobá A sprawling Maya city in the Quintana Roo jungle, hub of the ancient world's largest network of raised white stone roads. Discover 
Featured · 17 / 28 Ancient · Chiapas Yaxchilán A Classic Maya city on a horseshoe bend of the Usumacinta River, reachable only by boat, whose carved lintels record its rulers and their rituals. Discover 
Featured · 18 / 28 Ancient · Tabasco La Venta The Olmec capital of La Venta was one of the earliest planned cities in Mesoamerica, famous for its colossal basalt heads and one of the first great earthen pyramids. Discover 
Featured · 19 / 28 Nature · State of México Popocatépetl & Iztaccíhuatl Two great volcanoes east of Mexico City, one smoking and alive, the other still as a sleeping woman, honoured by the Nahua as living beings. Discover 
Featured · 20 / 28 Nature · Guerrero Grutas de Cacahuamilpa One of the world's largest limestone cave systems, used for ceremonies in pre-Hispanic times and protected today as a national park. Discover 
Featured · 21 / 28 Nature · State of México Nevado de Toluca A dormant volcano in the State of México whose summit crater holds two high lakes where people left offerings for centuries. Discover 
Featured · 22 / 28 Nature · Yucatán Grutas de Balankanché A sacred Maya cave near Chichén Itzá where an untouched chamber of rain-god censers surrounds a stone column shaped like the world tree. Discover 
Featured · 23 / 28 Sanctuaries · State of México Chalma A canyon shrine to a Black Christ that grew over an older cave cult, and Mexico's second most important pilgrimage site after Guadalupe. Discover 
Featured · 24 / 28 Sanctuaries · Chiapas San Juan Chamula A Tzotzil Maya town whose whitewashed church shelters a living religion practised on a floor of pine needles, by candlelight and copal smoke. Discover 
Featured · 25 / 28 Sanctuaries · Yucatán Izamal A Maya holy city where a giant Franciscan convent sits on a flattened pyramid platform and Maya temples still rise between the streets. Discover 
Featured · 26 / 28 Sanctuaries · Guanajuato Cristo Rey (Cerro del Cubilete) A 20-metre bronze Christ the King crowns the Cerro del Cubilete, a Guanajuato hill long claimed as the geographic center of Mexico and rebuilt as a national pilgrimage site after the Cristero War. Discover 
Featured · 27 / 28 Energy · Querétaro Peña de Bernal A vast volcanic monolith rising over a small Querétaro town, sacred to the Otomí-Chichimeca and widely known today as an energy site. Discover 
Featured · 28 / 28 Energy · Veracruz Catemaco A lakeside town in the Veracruz rainforest that Mexico knows as its capital of folk magic and healers. Discover The atlas All 28 places Every sacred and ancient site, on one map you can filter. Open the atlas 01