The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

The extremely grey columns of one of Mexico City's most iconic beltways are slowly gaining a bit of color.

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

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

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

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

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

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

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

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

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

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The stoutest tree in the world.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.