The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds.

As Mexican families prepare for Day of the Dead celebrations, altars are set up to welcome back loved ones under the belief that they return home for one night each Nov. 2.

The Casa de México in Madrid is exhibiting the largest altar to the dead in Europe. Guillermo González is the designer of ...

Families in a small town in western Mexico kept an all-night vigil at a candlelit cemetery, waiting for the souls of their ...

The Day of the Dead – El Día de los Muertos – in Spanish is a Mexican celebration of deceased ancestors. Multi-coloured ...

I just got back from Puerto Vallarta, which means I spent five days in Mexico visiting our hotel bathroom all alone, ...

Dia de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration of those who have passed on. An exhibition about the celebration is on ...

The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, was gunned down Saturday night in the town’s historic ...

Mexican Mayor Carlos Manzo, who opposed drug cartels, was fatally shot during Day of the Dead celebrations in Uruapan on ...

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak ...

Mexico City is the most popular Day of the Dead destination, but Mexico's Pueblos Mágicos are worth exploring too, and may be ...

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, is pushing measures against sexual harassment after she was groped by a ...