Mexico
Every logged mystery in this country.
- Mexico City (Cuauhtémoc)
Altar de la Santa Muerte
A life-size Santa Muerte has stood in a glass case on the pavement outside Alfarería 12 since Halloween 2001, when Enriqueta Romero moved the figure out of her house and made a private devotion public. The Catholic Church calls the devotion blasphemy and the army has bulldozed shrines in other cities. This one was left alone.
- Mexico City
Island of the Dolls
A doll-covered chinampa in Xochimilco where local legend, outsider art, and dark tourism meet in one of Mexico City's strangest visitor stops.
- Mexico City (Xochimilco)
La Llorona
Mexico's most enduring ghost story, about a weeping woman who drowned her own children and now wanders waterways searching for them, first documented in 16th-century Mexico City and still reported along canals, rivers, and borderlands from Xochimilco to the American Southwest.
- Mexico City (Venustiano Carranza)
Mercado de Sonora
Mexico City's main public market for traditional medicine and folk religion, a municipal market hall opened in 1957 whose back aisles grew into the country's largest working trade in herbal remedies, Santa Muerte devotion, Santería offerings and limpias. Roughly two thousand people a week come for that section specifically, and they come to buy and to consult rather than to look.
- Yucatán
Misnébalam
A deserted henequen hacienda outside Mérida where three separate ghosts are said to still work the ruined grounds: a murdered landowner, a tormented boy, and a monk nobody can place in the historical record.
- Mexico City (Cuauhtémoc)
Templo de San Hipólito
The largest church in Latin America dedicated to San Judas Tadeo, patron of lost and desperate causes, standing on the ground where Hernán Cortés ordered a monument to the Spanish soldiers killed fleeing Tenochtitlan. Devotees fill Avenida Hidalgo on the 28th of every month, and on 28 October the city closes the surrounding streets.
- Mexico City (Cuauhtémoc)
Templo Mayor
The main temple of Tenochtitlan, buried under Mexico City for four and a half centuries and found in 1978 when electricity workers laying cable hit a carved monolith over three metres across. Excavation has run continuously ever since, and in March 2026 archaeologists announced that six offerings recovered across three different decades had all been buried in a single ceremony.
- State of Mexico
Teotihuacan
One of the largest cities in the ancient world at its peak, built by a civilization whose name, language, and rulers remain unknown. The Aztecs found it already abandoned centuries later and named it "the place where the gods were created."
- Durango / Chihuahua / Coahuila
Zone of Silence
On July 11, 1970, an Athena missile launched from Green River, Utah went off course and came down deep inside Mexico, in the Mapimí desert of Durango. Its reentry vehicle carried two containers of cobalt-57. American crews built a road to reach it and hauled tons of soil back out.