Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

These subterranean models show Mexico City's central square during three different eras.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

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

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

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

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

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

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

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

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

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

This architectural wonder of Mexico City houses several art schools and national research centers.

A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

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

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

Its exhibits are dedicated to educating the public about state terrorism in Mexico.

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

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

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.