This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

It’s a painted window that looks completely real, hiding on a building in the market square.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

This collection of promotional calendars preserves a staple of mid-century Mexican pop art.

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

These "antimonuments" confront the Mexican authorities by memorializing the most troubling events in the country's modern history.

This neighborhood was built in the golden age of Art-Decó, and its buildings are essential to understanding this style

A well was built by the Spanish before their conquest of Mexico.

This historic, pentagon-shaped fort houses the City Museum.

In a town defined by its incredible trees, having a shrine in one just makes sense.

This 16th-century missionary site features Catholic murals, stone carvings, and fortress-like architecture.

A small square that sheds its troubled recent history with its surrounding artworks, some of which are not without controversy.

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

A Spanish Colonial fort now houses an archeology museum.

This former ghost town high in the mountains of northern Mexico is now a pilgrimage site.

After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

Bold, unapologetically spicy Mixtecan flavors are on the menu here.

A beautiful example of 18th-century engineering still standing tall.

The world's tallest carillon is located at the top of this skyscraper in Mexico City.

One of the oldest Christian churches still standing in the Americas, and almost certainly Mexico's oldest in continuous use.

Take in a sweeping views of Guanajuato—and save yourself a hike up a steep hill—on this funicular.

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

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