This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

This beautiful and unmissable little museum is full of fascinating artifacts from Mesoamerica's great civilizations.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

Legend says the building's unusual features were added at the request of a paranoid president.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Diego Rivera hid various people and symbols in his first large-scale mural project.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.