Architecture in Mexico

This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

A wall of this old hotel was decorated with drawings made of pebbles during its construction.

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

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

The former home of surrealist Edward James, who gave Xilitla its main attraction.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

Inside one of Guadalajara's oldest houses, you can find puppets and foam models of the city's missing buildings.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

The scene of a legendary hunt is displayed on this building's facade.

A skeleton without arms watches over the side door of one of the most beautiful baroque temples in Mexico.

Oaxaca's recently restored "forgotten Dominican convent."

This metal church may or may not have been designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel.

This former hotel and casino was part of a paper mill operation that was one of Mexico's largest employers.

Get three sheets to the wind at this desert winery with a nautical theme.

This hotel is an amazing example of the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura movement.

In the middle of this historic colonial city resides a modernist government building known as the UFO.