Places katehawes Wants to Go

What better place to learn about the beautiful game than an actual soccer ball-shaped building?

It was dubbed the "Garden of Plates" because it's covered in pieces of discarded dishes.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

A 40-foot waterfall hidden in a desert oasis.

These gleaming gypsum sand dunes are the second-largest in North America.

This small town specializes in a rainbow of corn snacks.

Monumental paintings, discovered in a Mexican cathedral in 1957, depict the deaths of some friars in Japan.

A skeleton without arms watches over the side door of one of the most beautiful baroque temples in Mexico.

For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.

This historic Mexican convent is home to a tree that grows crucifix-like thorns.

This lonely tower survived the landslide that devastated much of a Mexican mining town.

Historic poems about the noble act of defecating have been preserved on the wall of this old convent.

The F1 Mexican Grand Prix circuit goes right through the middle of this old baseball stadium.

Mexico's second-tallest monument, now half-hidden in a private residential complex.

A cenote sitting in the middle of a parking lot shows the Yucatán Peninsula at its most urbanized.

A spectrum of colors awaits visitors to one of Mexico's most gorgeous bodies of water.

Traditional craftwork and modern pop culture merge in this piñata workshop.

This one-of-a-kind convent boasts a kaleidoscopic exterior of stars and double-headed eagles.

A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

This archeological site hidden behind Teotihuacán's pyramids shelters 1600-year-old murals.

The colorful array of art leads to a small Aztec pyramid.

Legend says the building's unusual features were added at the request of a paranoid president.

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."