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

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

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

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

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

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

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

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.

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.