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

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

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

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.

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

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

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 only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

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

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

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

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

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

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

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

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.