At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

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

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

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

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

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.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

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

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

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

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.