Places Tellaeche Wants to Go

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

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

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

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

This immense scene of a cosmic battle between a jaguar and serpent illustrates the Aztec concept of the duality of life.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.