Places eliasirving Wants to Go

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The historic single-screen movie theater is one of only four cinemas in the world to screen films in VistaVison format.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

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

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

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

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

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

This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

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

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

One of Mexico City's seats of the Catholic faith, although not the majoritarian Latin Roman rite.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

A series of mosaics in Mexico City's Historic Center celebrate the Basque Country's "eighth province"—its diaspora.

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

Hidden for more than a century, the grave of the Conquistador remains forgotten behind these church walls.