Places aavalos Wants to Go

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

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

A close look at the church's walls reveals pieces of Mexico's history.

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

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

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

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.