Places theamarant Wants to Go

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

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

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

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

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

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

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

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

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

The world's longest known cave system.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

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

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.