An ode to a chess-loving diplomat.

After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

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

A wall of this old hotel was decorated with drawings made of pebbles during its construction.

The curious flowers of this hard-to-find tree are shaped like little hands.

An alluring, arid botanical garden home to a bewildering variety of cacti both endangered and common.

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

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.

This monument marking the center of Mexico might be more political than geographical.

A statue in Balderas subway station honors the rock star who wrote about it in a song.

This memorial was raised in honor of a group of workers heavily impacted by the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

Inside one of Guadalajara's oldest houses, you can find puppets and foam models of the city's missing buildings.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

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

The scene of a legendary hunt is displayed on this building's facade.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.