This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

A colorful "forest" made entirely from three tons of recycled plastic waste.

Though the name might suggest otherwise, this is an American cemetery.

This immense scene of a cosmic battle between a jaguar and serpent illustrates the Aztec concept of the duality of life.

A detailed model of Mexico City is the star attraction within this interactive exhibit inside an old theater.

Resembling a 15th century medieval fortress, this home once belonged to a legend of Mexican cinema.

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

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

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

The former Mexican president kept the bullets that killed his predecessor on display in his home, now a museum.

This collection of promotional calendars preserves a staple of mid-century Mexican pop art.

Legend says the building's unusual features were added at the request of a paranoid president.

Mexico's National Sound Library houses music, recordings, and voices from the nation's rich past.

This Mexico City subway station will make you feel like you've been transported to the London Underground.

This piece of a Renaissance-era Spanish castle remained lost for decades.

A tribute to the 20th-century ball that cast a spotlight on Mexico’s LGBTQ community.