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

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

Marigold? Check. Candles? Check. And of course, sugar skulls - the final touch on altars honouring deceased loved ones during ...

Native to Mexico, the cempasúchil, or marigold, is recognized as the ceremonial Day of the Dead flower—and is used to guide ...

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

Thousands of people in vibrant costumes and skull-like makeup turned out for Mexico City's annual Catrina's parade ahead of ...

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

Pomuch, Mexico, is one of the last places where residents clean their relatives’ bones. Now they are grappling with a new challenge: tourists.

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

Parishioners in Mexico City, Mexico, celebrate one of the country's most profound cultural traditions, Day of the Dead, on ...

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