Places GigaJax Wants to Go

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

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

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

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

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

This hotel is an amazing example of the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura movement.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

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.

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

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

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

This enormous photomural pays homage to Vancouver's infamous history of public activism.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.