Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.

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

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

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

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

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

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

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

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

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

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