A hotel that was planned as one of the most extravagant in the world was barely open to the public before its architect killed himself in the now-crumbling property.
Posada Del Sol in Mexico City was the unique vision of Fernando Saldana Galvan who during the first half of the 20th century wanted to create a hotel and centre where artists and intellectuals could come and meet.
However, it was open for less than one year and its ongoing construction was halted in 1945 after Galvan had built more than 600 rooms.
Spiralling debt led him to take his own life in the bell tower of the chapel in the hotel's yard, directly in front of a statue of St. Francis of Assisi.
Legend tells of Galvan cursing his beloved Posada Del Sol before he killed himself, leaving the property empty ever since.
Rumours persisted that he went mad and killed all his family in a rage just before it was due to open.
The official response was that he died of pneumonia in his house just months before he closed the project.
But conspiracy theories surround his death.
Symbols and a pentagram alluding to the Freemasons organisation are found throughout the hotel's grounds.
Galvan was even said to have used the entire project as a cover up for dabbling in satanic rituals inside the building - including stories of human sacrifices - and some believe he now haunts the hotel.
The abandoned property is illegal to enter but for anyone able to find their way past all the wired nets and metal fences they will be met with a truly creepy building.
Posada Del Sol is located between footstalls in the Colonia Doctores area of the capital city in Mexico and takes up more than half a block.
Gardens, patios, fountains and terraces, not forgetting Turkish baths, fill the grounds.
Galvan was an art lover and hung huge paintings around the place in galleries as well including a human-sized chess board in his audacious designs.
Ballrooms, tearooms, a casino and a theatre make up the rest of this strange mix of Baroque and Art Nouveau architecture.
One notorious room in particular, that you have to crouch in to enter, pays honour to a little girl who went missing in the 1960s and was found dead in the hotel's basement.
She is said to haunt to grounds and some visitors have put sweets and toys on the altar, which has her framed photo, to help her find peace and be released from the property - at the spirit's request for those who come across her.
The visionary hotel is considered an icon of Mexican architecture and its neighbours say that even today they can hear ghostly wails coming from inside the walls that keep all but the bravest out.
