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A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

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.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

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

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

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

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

Two waterfalls flow down the cliff faces decorated with rare natural basalt columns.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

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

A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.

Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.

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

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.