Places roguetitan Wants to Go

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

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

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

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

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.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.