This highly decorated dam is one of Guanajuato's most unexpectedly beautiful public works.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

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

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

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

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

Its incredible collections are dedicated to preserving Mexico's film history.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

Hidden for more than a century, the grave of the Conquistador remains forgotten behind these church walls.

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

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

Diego Rivera hid various people and symbols in his first large-scale mural project.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

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

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.