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A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

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

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

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.