Londres 247, Del Carmen, Coyoacán, CDMX 04100

The Blue House — her birthplace, her studio, and where she died in 1954. She described it as the universe. Now the Museo Frida Kahlo, it draws a million visitors a year.

Tacuba 28, Centro Histórico, CDMX 06010

Mexico City's most storied restaurant, open since 1912. She and Rivera dined here with their muralist circle and Communist Party comrades throughout the 1930s and 40s.

Diego Rivera 50, San Ángel, CDMX 01000

The 17th-century former Carmelite convent turned restaurant, steps from Rivera's studio. A setting for their famously tempestuous social life and the bohemian Mexico City scene.

140 E 63rd St, New York, NY 10065

Her Manhattan base during her 1938 New York show at the Julien Levy Gallery. She arrived with Trotsky's endorsement and left a sensation.

2 Pl. des Pyramides, 75001 Paris

Her Paris base for her 1939 show at the Renou et Colle gallery. She hated the city initially — "it reeks of that rotten elegant" — but the show was championed by Picasso and Kandinsky.