Even if you aren't a fan yet, you'll fall in love with opera after attending a production at the Santa Fe Opera House. With acclaimed singers from around the world visiting, the opera produces grand productions from classical composers to modern day favorites. Call or go online to check out performance times.

This beautiful example of Spanish colonial architecture contains a small museum dedicated to the Spanish Inquisition's brutal persecution of heretics once carried out in these very chambers. Visitors can still see some of the torture devices used to extract confessions of heresy and witchcraft, along with some of the questions used in "witch" interrogations, which are still displayed on the museum wall. Needless to say, no prisoner could hope to be acquitted of their purported crimes against the Catholic Church, and most met their tragic end at the very guillotine still on display in the courtyard.

The observation deck of the Q1 building at levels 77 and 78 (that's 230 metres high!) offers exceptional views in all directions. There is a museum, a weather station and a bar across the two floors. Feel on top of the world and do not forget the camera.