Places daniellovins Wants to Go

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

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

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

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

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

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

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

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

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

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

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.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

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

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.