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

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

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

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

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

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

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

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

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

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

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.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

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

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