Places Mexicat Wants to Go

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

This Dakar museum exhibits artworks and artifacts honoring the daily lives of Senegalese women.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

Colonial architecture meets urban art in this sprawling open-air gallery.

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

This upscale restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine serves sauces tied to important life events.

A unique walk through hundreds of cactus plants, including some that stretch over 8 feet tall.

An island graveyard with spectacular views of the Caribbean.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

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

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

A small pack of an ancient, hairless breed of dog once believed to guide souls through the underworld lives on its grounds.

Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.

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

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

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

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.