Uxmal

Uxmal is the finest example of Puuc Maya architecture in the Yucatan, with the Governor's Palace facade featuring 20,000 individually carved interlocking mosaic stones depicting Chaac rain god masks—the highest achievement of architectural decoration in pre-Columbian America. The Pyramid of the Magician's unique oval base, the Nunnery Quadrangle's Venus symbols, and the Iguana House combine into a site of extraordinary intellectual complexity, with 20% more original facade stones than any comparable Puuc site, drawing 1.5 million visitors annually, nearly matching the attendance at Chichen Itza.