Places Himanshu Wants to Go

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Visit a speakeasy-like indie cinema specializing in 16mm and 35mm films.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

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

History is on display in this hall, which has served as the seat of city government for centuries.

Founded by a Basque immigrant, Mexico City's oldest bakery has a history dating back to 1870.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

This Mexico City subway station will make you feel like you've been transported to the London Underground.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

A Mexico City subway station boasts a hidden museum, complete with a working radio booth.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

This clock was gifted to Mexico as a show of gratitude for its long history of welcoming Arab migrants.

Its incredible collections are dedicated to preserving Mexico's film history.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

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

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.