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

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

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

The Nazca lines are legendary. Stretching across 400 square miles of high arid plateau are drawings of hundreds of figures. They range from giant spiders to vast geometric shapes to enormous... »

Lost Tribes | Edited by

On Lake Titicaca, one ancient people, the Uros, live on islands made of living reeds that float around the lake. The Uros people have been living on the lake for hundreds of years—they were... »

Anomalous Islands, Lost Tribes, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Henry