In Mexico City, parades will feature people in colorful customs with large skull masks while skull-shaped floats move through the streets to the rhythm of Aztec drums. Marigolds, skull-painted faces ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every year, five hours west of Mexico City on Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, residents flock to the island of Janitzio to visit the graves of their departed relatives.

In Mexico City, parades will feature people in colorful customs with large skull masks while skull-shaped floats move through the streets to the rhythm of Aztec drums. Marigolds, skull-painted faces ...

Visiting Mexico to experience Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is considered cultural appreciation, not appropriation - ...

Celebrators dress up like skeletons, which are called "Catrinas" (for women) and "Catrines" (for men) on the Day Of The Dead.