A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

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

This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

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

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

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

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

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

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

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

A trompe l'oeil mural remembers the original colonial building that once stood here.

This clock was gifted to Mexico as a show of gratitude for its long history of welcoming Arab migrants.

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

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

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

A tribute to the 20th-century ball that cast a spotlight on Mexico’s LGBTQ community.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

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

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.