Mexico

A large pre-Columbian Maya city built between the 9th and 12th centuries CE in the Yucatán Peninsula, famous for the stepped pyramid of El Castillo, the largest ball court in Mesoamerica, and precise astronomical alignments encoded in its architecture.

A network of six major canyons in the Sierra Tarahumara of western Chihuahua deeper than the Grand Canyon — Urique, the deepest, drops 1,879 metres — accessible by the FERROPeat Chepe train, and home to the indigenous Rarámuri people whose communities are integral to the canyon's identity.

Built atop the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, the Centro Histórico contains over 1,440 heritage buildings spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, centred on the Zócalo — the largest public plaza in the Western Hemisphere — and anchored by the Metropolitan Cathedral, Templo Mayor and National Palace.

Mexico City's premier arts venue, completed in 1934, combining Art Nouveau and Art Deco architecture with performing arts programming and housing murals by Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco.

A vast Mesoamerican city at its peak between 100 BCE and 550 CE, with the largest pyramid in the Western Hemisphere — the Pyramid of the Sun — aligned to astronomical events, its original language and rulers still unknown despite a century of archaeology.

A walled Postclassic Maya city on a limestone cliff 12 metres above the Caribbean Sea, occupied from the 13th to 16th centuries, distinguished by its coastal setting, well-preserved frescoes and the Castillo pyramid framing the sea behind it.