The sky darkened from a bright blue to a deep blue-black as the sun set on a horizon that couldn’t be seen from the canals of Xochimilco, the manmade waterways that snake around the south of Mexico ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. There is a disturbing circularity to the story of "La Isla de la Munecas," aka "The ...

Welcome to one of the creepiest places in the world. If you’ve ever watched a horror movie and thought ‘I would love to visit that spooky, desolate forest!’, this is for you. This deer got stuck in an ...

Lady Gaga’s latest music video, The Dead Dance, unfolds like a gothic fairytale on Mexico City’s eerie Isla de las Muñecas in Xochimilco. In English, this translates to the Island of the Dolls, and it ...

Mexico’s La Isla de las Munecas, or “Island of the Dolls”, has become an unlikely tourist attraction just south of Mexico City, drawing thousands of tourists and photographers morbidly fascinated by ...

Child's play — or the stuff of nightmares? A boat trip through the Xomichimilco channels south of Mexico City leads to Xochimilco island — better known as la isla de las muñecas — or the Island of ...

Hidden in the canals of Xochimilco near Mexico City, Isla de las Muñecas became the life’s work of a reclusive man who spent decades collecting and hanging thousands of mutilated dolls. What began ...