History is on display in this hall, which has served as the seat of city government for centuries.

Mexico City's residents are being watched by this state surveillance headquarters, designed by architects with a flair for intimidation.

Discarded animal sculptures stand forgotten by an abandoned aquarium and water park in Bosque de Chapultepec.

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

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

Hidden for more than a century, the grave of the Conquistador remains forgotten behind these church walls.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

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

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

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

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

A local prank turned town icon.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.