This upscale restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine serves sauces tied to important life events.

This "cursed house" features secret rooms, hidden vaults, and dark escape tunnels.

This art center located in a former hydroelectric plant uses native plants to create paper for kites, bags, jewelry, and more.

Amid lush greenery, a man-made channel peppered with graffiti that dates back to 1881.

A collection of incredible clay crafts, complete with earthen skeletons and mermaids.

The jewel of the museum is a rare tumulus, a funeral decoration from the 18th century.

The development of this cliffside waterpark is representative of Mexico's history of co-op tourism developments.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.

This neon installation is a tribute to a Mexica god, who gave his skin to humanity.

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

A spring water stream jumps through a walkable "bridge" cavern and a narrow canyon.

The archeological ruins of the ancient fortified city of the mysterious Teotenanca civilization.

A wall of this old hotel was decorated with drawings made of pebbles during its construction.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

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

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.