Platform of Venus, Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Map of archaeological site, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Stone Aztec statues on temple steps, archaeological site and museum of Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mexico City, Mexico, North America

Carved stonework details, Temple of Panels (Templo de los Tableros Esculpidos), Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Carved stonework figure, possibly erotic on smaller building, Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Mayan funerary urn, Popol Vuh Museum, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America

Mayan and other pre-Columbian artifacts, Museum of Anthropology and History, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Archaeologists at work, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Line of people waiting to enter, at Chichen Itza, Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Archaeologists at work Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Surveyor at work, Temple of Panels (Templo de los Tableros Esculpidos), Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

Close-up of a Mayan funerary urn in the Popol Vuh Museum in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America

Group of adventure tourists spelunking in Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, central Belize.

Close-up view of human figure splayed like a toad and holding a purple stone, carved on the side of a Mayan ruin, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico