Places sophiee Wants to Go

Mexico's National Sound Library houses music, recordings, and voices from the nation's rich past.

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

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

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

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

Its incredible collections are dedicated to preserving Mexico's film history.

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

Its exhibits are dedicated to educating the public about state terrorism in Mexico.

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.

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

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

The unique collection of gifts includes braids of human hair, a spoon, and a Virgin made of bread.

The Vietcong leader isn’t the only symbol of late 20th-century counterculture represented in this statue.

One of the oldest Christian churches still standing in the Americas, and almost certainly Mexico's oldest in continuous use.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

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

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

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

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

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.

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

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