Places Uberaffe Wants to Go

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

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

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

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

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

A colorful "forest" made entirely from three tons of recycled plastic waste.

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

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

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

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

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

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

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

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

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

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

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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