Places maren Wants to Go

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

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

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.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.