Mexico City, Mexico
Skull Rack of the Great Temple
A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.
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Mexico City, Mexico
A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Colonial architecture meets urban art in this sprawling open-air gallery.
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
This baroque wonder is filled with a trove of artistic treasures.
Mexico City, Mexico
A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
Mexico City, Mexico
Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.
Mexico City, Mexico
Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.
Mexico City, Mexico
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.
Mexico City, Mexico
Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.
Mexico City, Mexico
One of the oldest Christian churches still standing in the Americas, and almost certainly Mexico's oldest in continuous use.
Mexico City, Mexico
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
Mexico City, Mexico
In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.
Liverpool, England
Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.
Cardiff, Wales
Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.
Cardiff, Wales
The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Inyo County, California
Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.
Las Vegas, Nevada
“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.
Trevor, Wales
The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.