A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

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

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

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

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

This architectural wonder of Mexico City houses several art schools and national research centers.

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

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

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

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

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

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

These colonial murals are a fascinating hybrid of Spanish and Indigenous aesthetics.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

Concrete construction materials turned into a fashionable capsule hotel in rural Mexico.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

Home to works by notable Mexican artists and an underwater mosaic of the pre-Columbian goddess Gaia.