holiday honors the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on Nov. 1 and 2. (Photo: AP)
A “catrina†and \"calavera†stand in front of a Day of the Dead altar honoring the 43 disappeared rural college students in Acapulco, Mexico.
A couple wearing skull masks during the parade.
A woman made up as a skull participates in Day of the Dead festivities.
The capital city will hold its first Day of the Dead parade Saturday, complete with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and over 1,000 actors, dancers and acrobats in costumes.
Sex workers, wearing decorative skull masks, march through the streets in downtown Mexico City.
A couple walks by as a woman works on a sawdust representation of a skull.
Skeletons decorate Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, as part of the Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico City.