Huasteca Culture Museum

Opened in 2004, the center features a museum, a library, as well as theaters for opera, ballet and more avant-garde productions.

Tampico's Central Park. Don't bother bringing your bathing suit... the lagoon is full of crocodiles! They're easy to spot from the shore; you won't be disappointed.

Once a state prison, now a children's educational and cultural center.

An impressive cable-stayed bridge that spans the Pánuco River. While you can't access the bridge on foot, it can be seen from many places in the city, including the Laguna del Carpintero.

A majestic hospital that was abandoned in the 1980s and now is eerily overgrown with trees and weeds. Although not strictly legal, you can explore it, and in fact you may be invited to do so by the on-site restoration workers. There are great views of the city at the top, but be careful! This is an abandoned building with potentially fatal falls. You are at your own risk.

Tampico's main cathedral, built in the late 19th century in the neoclassical style.