This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

A shining treasure trove of fine Mexican silver dating back to the 15th century.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

This Mexico City subway station will make you feel like you've been transported to the London Underground.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.

A Mexico City subway station boasts a hidden museum, complete with a working radio booth.

This Japanese-inspired park showcases the city's peculiar trends for naming features after foreign rulers.

These subterranean models show Mexico City's central square during three different eras.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

A bullet-scarred monastery chronicles Mexico's turbulent history of foreign invasions.

This architectural wonder of Mexico City houses several art schools and national research centers.

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

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.