Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Casa de León Trotsky
A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Mexico City, Mexico
La Casa Azul
Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.
Mexico City, Mexico
Fuente de los Coyotes
In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.
Mexico City, Mexico
La Casa de los Azulejos
Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.
Permanently Closed
Mexico City, Mexico
The Cake Room at Pastelería Ideal
Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.
Mexico City, Mexico
National Museum of Anthropology Murals
The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.
Mexico City, Mexico
Coatlicue Statue
Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.
Mexico City, Mexico
Palacio Postal
Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.
Mexico City, Mexico
Alexander Von Humboldt Monument
A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.
Mexico City, Mexico
Cocodrilo de Leonora Carrington
A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.
Mexico City, Mexico
Cafebrería El Péndulo
Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.
Washington, D.C.
Foundry Branch Tunnel
Once a sewer culvert, this road tunnel now offers cyclists and pedestrians a subterranean stroll under the C&O Canal.
Washington, D.C.
Hall of Fake Presidents
Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.
Washington, D.C.
Washington Coliseum
A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.
Washington, D.C.
Cher Ami
A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.
Washington, D.C.
Ben's Chili Bowl Mural
A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.
Washington, D.C.
Florida Avenue Grill
The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.
Washington, D.C.
The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
Washington, D.C.
Southwest Duck Pond
This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Sergeant Stubby
The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.
Washington, D.C.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
Washington, D.C.
FBI Spy House
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Seattle, Washington
Gum Wall
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
Gas Works Park
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
