Rio de Janeiro is a city of extraordinary beauty and extraordinary abandonment — where the ghost town of São João Marcos was flooded by a dam reservoir in the 1940s...

Brazil is the most urbex-diverse country in South America — a territory the size of a continent where Henry Ford built an entire American city deep in the Amazon and...

In this article, discover everything you need to explore urbex Mexico with our exclusive Urbex Mexico Map, which features over 500 abandoned places across Mexico, carefully documented for unique and...

Mexico is one of the most diverse urbex territories in the Americas — a country where abandoned silver-mining ghost towns have sat frozen since the Porfiriato era, where Yucatán henequen...

Mexico built one of Latin America's most ambitious industrial economies in the 20th century — Monterrey's Fundidora de Fierro y Acero was the first steel foundry on the continent, founded...

Mexico's derelict villa landscape spans five centuries of built ambition — from the colonial-era hacienda houses that housed the encomenderos of New Spain, through the Porfiriato-era mansions built for the...

Mexico's military heritage spans five centuries of colonial defense, independence war, foreign invasion, and Revolution — from the Fuerte de San Juan de Ulúa in Veracruz, built in 1535 and...

Mexico's derelict hotel landscape spans a century of resort ambition — from the grand Porfiriato-era balnearios (spa resorts) built around thermal springs to the 1970s and 1980s Pacific coast hotels...

Mexico's deserted places reflect the full arc of 500 years of ambition and collapse — silver-mining boomtowns that held tens of thousands and are now home to a few hundred;...

The Yucatán Peninsula holds one of the most distinctive and photogenic abandoned heritage landscapes in the Americas — hundreds of henequen haciendas built during the sisal boom of the 1880s–1940s...

Puebla is one of Mexico's most historically layered cities — a UNESCO World Heritage colonial center since 1987, the site of the 1862 Battle of Cinco de Mayo, and the...

Acapulco was once the most glamorous resort on the Latin American Pacific coast — the "Riviera of the Pacific" where Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Cary Grant arrived by private...