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La Isla de las Muñecas

Mexico City, Mexico

La Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls)

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

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(Flickr/Riku Kettunen)

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La Casa Azul

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

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Mercado de Sonora

Mexico City, Mexico

Mercado de Sonora

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

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Added by Laetitia Barbier

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Cafebreria El Pendulo

Part bookstore, part cafe, and part forest.

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(Flickr/Juan Barrios)

Mexico City, Mexico

Soumaya Museum

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

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Santa Muerte

Mexico City, Mexico

Santuario Nacional del Angel de la Santa Muerte

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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The shelves are the structure.

Mexico City, Mexico

City of Books at Biblioteca Vasconcelos

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" contains the complete, perusable personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

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Added by sergioski02

Mummies of El Carmen

Mexico City, Mexico

The Mummies at Museo de El Carmen

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

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(Flickr/Davidmag)

Mexico City, Mexico

Fuente de Tláloc

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

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Museo del Juguete Antiguo México

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo del Juguete Antiguo México

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

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Mexico City, Mexico

Chapultepec Castle

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

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Diego and Frida's houses, connected by a bridge

Mexico City, Mexico

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House Studio Museum

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

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Added by Ike Allen

La Posada del Sol

Mexico City, Mexico

La Posada del Sol

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

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The front of Minichelista.

Mexico City, Mexico

Minichelista Restaurant

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

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Trotsky's tomb at the Museo Casa de León Trotsky

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Casa de León Trotsky

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

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Entering the bustling lobby of Correo Mayor

Mexico City, Mexico

Palacio Postal

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

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Stories
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The remains in a burial under Mexico City appear to have been arranged in a spiral.

Found: A Spiral Mass Grave in Mexico City

Evidence of an elaborate ritual 2,400 years ago.

by Vittoria Traverso

February 02, 2018

This temple has been hiding under the center of Mexico City for centuries.

Found: An Aztec Temple Hiding Under the Streets of Mexico City

Along with 32 sets of human neck bones.

by Sarah Laskow

The opening scene of the Bond film <em>Spectre</em>, showing a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City.

Mexico City’s New Day of the Dead Parade is Based on a James Bond Film

The cultural event first appeared in "Spectre."

by Simon Schatzberg

November 11, 2016

La Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City

The Mysterious Siren Behind Mexico City's Junk Collectors

The woman's recorded voice has been heard all over South America, and maybe even farther.

September 29, 2016

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