A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

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

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

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

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

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

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

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

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