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

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

The remains of an Aztec school and various intriguing artifacts lie below a modern cultural center.

A curious museum of old video game consoles hidden in the back of a store.

An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.

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

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

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

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.

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

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.