Showing posts with the label Mexico

The Radiological Incident in Ciudad Juárez

Jun 5, 2023

One of the worst radiation accident in North America took place in the city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1984. Although the incident is rela...

Tzompantli: The Gruesome Skull Racks of The Aztecs

Aug 25, 2021

When Spanish explorers first arrived in Mexico in the early 16th century and made contact with the Aztecs, they were taken aback by the cult...

Hells Bells

Jan 11, 2021

Deep down El Zapote cenote, a 50-meter-deep water-filled sinkhole in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites take a diff...

The Cactus That Crawls Across The Desert

Mar 12, 2019

The narrow peninsula of Baja California Sur, sticking into the central Pacific off Mexico’s west coast, is home to a unique species of cactu...

The Festival of Exploding Sledgehammers

Apr 1, 2017

Every February, residents of the tiny town of San Juan de la Vega in Mexico perform the re-enactment of a four hundred year-old battle that ...

La Pascualita, The Corpse Bride

Jan 16, 2017

Peering out from behind the glass window of a small bridal shop in Chihuahua, Mexico, stands a tall, slender figure dressed in bridal costum...

The Hell’s Bells of Cenote Zapote

Nov 17, 2016

Deep below the surface, inside the water filled caverns of Cenote Zapote in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites grow into strange sh...

Cuexcomate: A Dead Volcano You Can Climb Into

May 26, 2016

Located in the neighborhood of La Libertad, in the city of Puebla, Mexico, the sinter cone deposit of Cuexcomate has been mistakenly describ...

The Murals of National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mar 14, 2016

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in downtown Mexico, is the largest university in Latin America, and one of the ...

El Callejon del Beso, The Alley of The Kiss

Feb 10, 2016

The charming city of Guanajuato in central Mexico has many narrow streets and alleys, but El Callejon del Beso is by far one of the narrowes...