This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

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

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

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

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

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

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

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

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Back in the tiny USSR.