The Manzana de las Luces, or “Block of the Lights”, housed the activities of the early Jesuit missionaries in the nascent Buenos Aires, and as a complex comprises the church of San Ignacio, a... »

Subterranean Sites | Edited by and Dylan

Located a minute's walk from Argentina's national legislature, at the end of Buenos Aires' Avenida de Mayo, the Palacio Barolo, once South America's tallest building, still towers above the... »

Commercial Curiosities, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by , Dylan and others

Designed and paid for by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano, the Floralis Generica, a giant silvery flower, has been a striking city landmark since it opened in 2002. The enormous metal flower... »

Strange Statues | Edited by ilbonito, M Rebekah Otto and others

3,800 square-miles of salt flat spread out across Bolivia's remote southwest. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world, an endless sheet of hexagonal tiles (created by the crystalline... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities, Wonders of Salt | Edited by Dylan and wythe

The Peruvian capitol Lima is not the beauty it once was. It is vastly overcrowded thanks to perverse rural land policy that vacated the villages, suffused with the stench of fish factories. Its... »

Intriguing Environs, Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow

One of the first realizations one has about Easter Island is, it's not an archipelago. There are no other islands surrounding it. No, in all directions there is nothing but empty ocean for greater... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Retro-Tech, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas, Rites and Rituals, Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow, re_nakaba and others

The primary instrument at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory is an incoherent scatter radar, a type of atmospheric probe of which there are only a handful in the world. While your ordinary radar... »

Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor

Recoleta Cemetery, in the upscale Recoleta Barrio of Buenos Aires, is the final resting place of many of Argentina's wealthiest and most famous families and personages. The mausoleums are fairly... »

Museums and Collections, Unusual Monuments, Relics and Reliquaries, Horticultural Marvels, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Clinton

Known as keshwa chaca, this is the only remaining example of the Incan handwoven bridges once common in the Incan road system. Made of woven grass, the bridge spans 118 feet, and hangs 220 feet... »

Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Henry

When searching for a coastal respite in Valparaíso, Pablo Neruda related the following specifications to his friend, Sara Vial, "It may not be too high or too low. It must be solitary, but not in... »

Eccentric Homes, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by littlebrumble and Annetta