Places ktknoll Wants to Go

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

This warehouse-gallery-shop hybrid showcases Mexican craftwork at its best.

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

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

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

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

This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

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

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

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

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

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

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

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

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

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

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

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

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.