Even on the brightest days, a dark pall hangs over La Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls. The name sounds cutesy and sweet, but the reality couldn’t be more different. Tucked away deep in ...
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 ...
Just south of Mexico City, where Xochimilco’s canals stretch out in a wild green maze, there’s a tiny piece of land that feels like it fell out of a nightmare. Trees aren’t full of birdsong here; they ...
Imagine an island where about 1,500 baby dolls and dismembered doll parts hang from trees, their lifeless eyes eerily staring at you as you walk past them. This isn’t a scene from a horror movie — ...
He lives off the island by farming lettuce and charging visitors $1.50 to tour the doll graveyard. I join a group of tourists who just stepped off a trajinera carrying a bottle of tequila. The tour ...
Sometimes when people get into a religious sulk they do things like fly planes into buildings or dress their kids in white and drown them in bleach. So, in the grand scheme of wacko theological ...