This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

The former Mexican president kept the bullets that killed his predecessor on display in his home, now a museum.

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

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

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

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

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

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

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

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

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

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

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

This Mexico City subway station will make you feel like you've been transported to the London Underground.

The official Presidential Residence of Los Pinos became an emblem of Mexico's opulence and presidential corruption.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Mexico City decorates its facades with extravagant floral arrangements every year.