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

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

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

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

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

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

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

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

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

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

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.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

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

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.