A Syrian family keeps memories of their homeland alive at this sweet shop.

Relaxed riverfront dive bar where you can also rent a boat.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This sculpture was made out of recycled guns that were turned in to the city.

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

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

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

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

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

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

Legend says that these centuries-old trees, which pre-date their nearby church, were planted by monks.

This aqueduct with 18th-century origins is integrated into modern life in various ways in Oaxaca.

Step past a rainbow of Oaxacan nightshades for a menu of regional moles worthy of weddings and funerals.

Start your morning off with an epic food crawl in this market east of Oaxaca’s historic center.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

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

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.