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

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

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

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

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

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

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

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

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

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

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

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

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

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

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