America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

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

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

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

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

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

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

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

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

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

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

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

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.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

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

This immense scene of a cosmic battle between a jaguar and serpent illustrates the Aztec concept of the duality of life.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.