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

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

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

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

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

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

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

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

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

This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.