The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

New York City's first Modernist house.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

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

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

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

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

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

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

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

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

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