A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

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

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

This Aztec structure remained hidden until the demolition of a supermarket exposed the lost temple.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

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.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

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

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

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

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

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

The entrance to an early 20th-century cultural center features murals that deal with the cultural fusion that characterizes Mexico.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.