Places btumpak Wants to Go

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

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

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

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

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

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

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.