Places arianalbear Wants to Go

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

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

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

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

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

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

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

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

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

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

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.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

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.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

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

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.