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

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

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

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.

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

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

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

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The former home of surrealist Edward James, who gave Xilitla its main attraction.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.