MERIDA, Mexico — Evalynne Engle came to this large yet laid-back southern Mexican city from Nevada, not to battle her home-renovating addiction but to indulge it. “I have a disease called ...

One of the premier things to do in Mérida, Paseo de Montejo is a wide street modeled after the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Stretching almost 4 miles long, it is lined with mansions dating back to ...