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

This former 17th-century church now houses a university's public library along with several mural masterworks.

This colonial-era hospital chapel is now a foyer and side entrance to a popular department store.

One of Mexico's few murals dedicated to an indigenous language.

A modern feminist movement has brought to life the mural that machismo once denied to artist María Izquierdo.

Prowl through this sprawling bazaar under a massive Soviet-era dome for delicious eats.

Once a luxurious flagship of the Soviet Union, this Brutalist structure remains a landmark of Tashkent’s communist past.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.

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

This mid-century mural portrays humankind's spiritual and scientific journey.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

These floating gardens show what Mexico City used to look during the Aztec Empire.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

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

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

One of the oldest Christian churches still standing in the Americas, and almost certainly Mexico's oldest in continuous use.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

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

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

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.