The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

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

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

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

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

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

Mexico City decorates its facades with extravagant floral arrangements every year.

Discarded animal sculptures stand forgotten by an abandoned aquarium and water park in Bosque de Chapultepec.

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

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

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

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

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

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

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

This stunning and ethereal mural symbolizes the beauty, unity, and diversity of humankind.

A gigantic, symbolic artwork covers the side of the building.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

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