The Island of the Dolls, Xochimilco — don Julián wasn't decorating

Most people know Isla de las Muñecas as creepy tourist content. Dolls hanging from trees, weathered and rotting, some missing eyes, some just heads. The story everyone tells: don Julián Santana Barrera found a girl drowned in the canal circa 1950s, felt guilty he hadn't saved her, started hanging do……