Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

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

Resembling a 15th century medieval fortress, this home once belonged to a legend of Mexican cinema.

Mexico's National Sound Library houses music, recordings, and voices from the nation's rich past.

This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

Less so a museum and more a library for hardcore Japanophiles.

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

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

Remnants of an architect's residence that displays his embrace of organic architecture.

A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

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

An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

The F1 Mexican Grand Prix circuit goes right through the middle of this old baseball stadium.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Concrete construction materials turned into a fashionable capsule hotel in rural Mexico.

The underground mall's skylights look like they could be part of a spaceship.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

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

This former hotel and casino was part of a paper mill operation that was one of Mexico's largest employers.

A shrine in the middle of this pond represents a Mesoamerican creation myth.

One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.