10. Dolores Hidalgo.  Dec 11, 2015.  This town is known as the birthplace of Mexican independence from Spain, when Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest, uttered The Grito de Dolores ("Cry of/from Dolores") the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence, on September 16, 1810. 

More infamously (to its Mexican citizens), it posseses the “Hijo del árbol de la Noche Triste,” or “Son of the Tree of the Night of Sorrows,” a tree grown from a sapling of the tree that Hernán Cortés in 1520 sat beneath and wept bitterly for his comrades who had fallen in battle. However, in a more cynical reading, they could have been equally provoked by the substantial quantities of gold lost on the retreat, or the realization that he was now the prime target for capture and slaughter as a human sacrifice by the wrathful warriors who were hunting him.  There is a statue of the kneeling and weeping Cortés beneath the tree.