This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

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

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

Diego Rivera hid various people and symbols in his first large-scale mural project.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

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

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

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

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

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

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 museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

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

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

Monumental paintings, discovered in a Mexican cathedral in 1957, depict the deaths of some friars in Japan.

An incredible little museum of interior design full of artifacts collected from around the world.

The former headquarters of a leader in the Mexican Revolution, and the site of an often-reproduced image.