Founded by Carlos Slim, Museo Soumaya is a non-profit cultural museum with two locations in Mexico City (Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto). Slim named the museum after his wife, Soumaya, who died in 1999. The six-story building is covered with 16,000 hexagonal aluminum tiles that makes up the exterior design, giving the somewhat peculiar impression of a woman’s neck. The impressive outer aesthetic, however, does no justice to the remarkably minimalist hallways of the interior that is sure to take your breath away.

The museum houses a whopping 66,000 collection of art which have an alleged value of over $700 million. Majority of the pieces are predominantly Central American and European (15th to 20th century), including works by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, and Van Gogh, just to name a few. It also includes stand-out pieces from French artist Auguste Rodin alongside paintings by Old Masters. Needless to say, the Mexican museum also contains plenty of Mexican art pieces, religious relics, historical documents and an array of coins and currency that depict the rich history that the Mexican culture boasts.