An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

It was dubbed the "Garden of Plates" because it's covered in pieces of discarded dishes.

A hidden room within the church displays an amazing collection of old choir books.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

One of the city's most imposing Neoclassical buildings is also one of its most prestigious schools.

This highly decorated dam is one of Guanajuato's most unexpectedly beautiful public works.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A hotel masquerading as a medieval castle overlooks a Mexican city.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

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

On a cornerstone of the City Museum is the head of a monstrous serpent stolen from an Aztec pyramid 400 years ago.

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

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

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

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This stunning and ethereal mural symbolizes the beauty, unity, and diversity of humankind.