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At this bright and vibrant museum in Mexico City, you can make your own custom scent.

The entrance to an early 20th-century cultural center features murals that deal with the cultural fusion that characterizes Mexico.

This immense scene of a cosmic battle between a jaguar and serpent illustrates the Aztec concept of the duality of life.

This mid-century mural portrays humankind's spiritual and scientific journey.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

A Mexico City subway station boasts a hidden museum, complete with a working radio booth.

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

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

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

The underground mall's skylights look like they could be part of a spaceship.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.