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This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

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

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

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

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

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.

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

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

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

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

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

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

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

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

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

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