In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.

In this beloved beach town, a secret seafood haven lies tucked behind a car wash.

This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

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

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

A colorful "forest" made entirely from three tons of recycled plastic waste.

The F1 Mexican Grand Prix circuit goes right through the middle of this old baseball stadium.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

The entrance to an early 20th-century cultural center features murals that deal with the cultural fusion that characterizes Mexico.

This memorial was raised in honor of a group of workers heavily impacted by the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

A statue in Balderas subway station honors the rock star who wrote about it in a song.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

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

Mexico's second-tallest monument, now half-hidden in a private residential complex.

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