Places sophiee Wants to Go

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

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

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.

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

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

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

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

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

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

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

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

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

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.