Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

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

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

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

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

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

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

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.