Places caseyjacks Wants to Go

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

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

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.

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.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

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

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

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

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

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

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

This Mexico City subway station will make you feel like you've been transported to the London Underground.

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

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.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.