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

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

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

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

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

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

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

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.