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

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

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

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

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

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

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

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

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

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.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

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

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

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

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

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

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

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.