Mexico City, Mexico
'La Mujer Chimenea' ('The Chimney Woman')
Mexico's second-tallest monument, now half-hidden in a private residential complex.
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Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico's second-tallest monument, now half-hidden in a private residential complex.
Mexico City, Mexico
Less so a museum and more a library for hardcore Japanophiles.
Mexico City, Mexico
A tribute to the 20th-century ball that cast a spotlight on Mexico’s LGBTQ community.
Mexico City, Mexico
A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.
Mexico City, Mexico
Its incredible collections are dedicated to preserving Mexico's film history.
Mexico City, Mexico
This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.
Mexico City, Mexico
This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.
Mexico City, Mexico
The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Guadalajara, Mexico
For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.
Guadalajara, Mexico
One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.
Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
A place to learn about the history and culture of Mexico's largest Anabaptist group.
Mexico
These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.
Goodwell, Oklahoma
On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.
Goodwell, Oklahoma
At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.
Williams, Arizona
Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.
Carthage, Missouri
This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.
Holbrook, Arizona
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
Bellville, Texas
A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.
Les Fonts, Spain
This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.