Imagine driving down a quiet country road, and suddenly — the land explodes into color. Fields stretch for miles in neat rows of pink, red, orange, purple, and gold, like someone dropped a giant box of crayons on the Earth and let the colors run wild. No, you’re not in the Netherlands. You’re in Skagit Valley, Washington — home to the most breathtaking tulip bloom in the USA.

As the sun sets on November 2nd in the quiet borough of San Andrés Mixquic, the local cemetery begins to glow. Hundreds of candles flicker to life. Marigold petals form glowing pathways. The air is thick with the scent of copal incense and tamales. But this is no ordinary cemetery visit — this is a sleepover with the dead.