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

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

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

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

This underground museum highlights the history of Mexico City's subway system.

Mexico's second-tallest monument, now half-hidden in a private residential complex.

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

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

A small building that loosely resembles a tooth is appropriately used as a dentist office.

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

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

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

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

This hotel is an amazing example of the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura movement.

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

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

This Mexico City subway station will make you feel like you've been transported to the London Underground.

The collection of intricate sculptures includes one carved from a mammoth's tusk

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Mexico City decorates its facades with extravagant floral arrangements every year.

The majestic, sacred tree is represented on this piece of public infrastructure.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.