Mexico City

Stand on the buried ruins of an Aztec pyramid, face murals Rivera spent 22 years painting, and eat ant larvae that emperors once prized. Five centuries of collision between two civilizations, all within walking distance.

The blue house where Frida painted in a wheelchair, the study where Trotsky met an ice axe, and the colonial plazas where Cortes planned his conquest. Coyoacan is where Mexico City keeps its most intimate stories.

Art Deco apartments, earthquake scars turned into parks, and the restaurants putting Mexico City on the world culinary map. Walk the colonia that proved a devastated neighborhood could become Latin America's coolest.

A castle where child soldiers chose death over surrender, a museum holding the Aztec Sun Stone, 700-year-old cypress trees, and a billionaire's free art collection. Chapultepec is a park, a history lesson, and a weekend ritual.