The crystal skulls have spoken: The world is not going to end.

Here are some of the world's key doomsday destinations and other places marked by fear and fascination.

As Michael Juhran discovers, Chichen Itza is a genuine architectural and mathematical masterpiece that the builders, the Mayas, achieved.

Revellers celebrate Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) - when Mexicans traditionally visit the graves of dead relatives and leave offerings of flowers, food and candy skulls - in Mexico and the US.

The Mexican engineer whose wife and baby daughter fell 26 floors to their deaths is holding on to hope the tragedy could have been an accident.

As mining makes a political comeback Catherine Masters finds strong local opposition to the prospect of a Northland gold rush