Places vijayhm Wants to Go

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

Mexico City’s smallest church, designed as a miniature cathedral and visited mainly by robbers and prostitutes.

An abstract sculpture memorializing a student massacre that took place in 1971.

Named after and designed by women, this unique cultural center is an early 20th-century mansion covered in a modern shell.

This avian-shaped stone that once held the hearts of Aztec human sacrifices now lies at the feet of Christ inside a Catholic church.

This simple rock stands as a memorial of the major student protests of 1968.

After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

A series of mosaics in Mexico City's Historic Center celebrate the Basque Country's "eighth province"—its diaspora.

Likely Mexico City's most eclectic shopping mall, with its own version of the Walk of Fame.

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

One of the best examples of Modernist religious architecture in Mexico City.

This ancient gaming tool was unearthed during the construction of this former town's central square.

This memorial was raised in honor of a group of workers heavily impacted by the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

These floating gardens show what Mexico City used to look during the Aztec Empire.

Legend says the building's unusual features were added at the request of a paranoid president.

Shop for superb tortillas at this homage to the ancient art of nixtamalization.

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

This piece of a Renaissance-era Spanish castle remained lost for decades.

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