Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

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

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

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

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

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.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

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

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

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

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

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

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

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.

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

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