Deep in the the Atacama desert in Chile emerges a giant sculpture of a hand. A popular photo spot for tourist visiting the Atacama. The hand was constructed at an altitude of 1,100 meters above sea level. The work has a base of iron and cement, and stands 11 meters tall. The sculpture was inaugurated on March 28, 1992. The [...]

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The San Alfonso del Mar Resort at Algarrobo, on Chile ’s southern coast has a pool so large that resort guests use can use kayaks and small boats to get around. At over 1,000 yards long, covering more 20 acres, with an astounding  115-foot deep end, and holding 66 million gallons of water.  This lagoon [...]

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Natives target the photographers  flying overhead, with their bows and arrows. Acre State, Brazil- Images from Survival International Indian’s of the Envira, who have never before had any contact with the outside world, photographed during an overflight in May 2008, as they react to the over flight at their camp in the Terra Indigena Kampa e Isolados do Envira, [...]

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Over twenty million people live in Mexico City.

Only four of them live in a gigantic nautilus shell. A Mexico City couple, and two small children, have moved into their new home - one inspired by the humble cephalopod. Its walls are held together with steel-reinforced chicken wire, and coated with a cement composite that makes [...]

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Even pickpockets know the value of a good education.
 

The School of the Seven Bells is a legendary, possibly apocryphal, and deliciously plausible school, said to be based in Colombia. Pickpocketing is largely a skilled combination of timing, and distraction, but South American pickpockets are particularly notorious.
There is, of course, an exam. Thieves-to-be are faced with [...]

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In Bolivia’s San Pedro Prison, you rent your cell.

They can be quite nice, if you have the money. Well-off prisoners can enjoy televisions, private bathrooms, and kitchenettes. One drug baron, Barbachoca (’Redbeard’) added a second story so that he could see the mountains - although poorer inmates often live six to a room. In your [...]

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This shark from a shark derby in Nova Scotia has nothing to do with this post, but its a damn cool thing in a random place as sharks aren’t supposed to look like this in Nova Scotia (at least I hope not while I’m surfing!) One of the best responses to this site as been “it [...]

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Guinness turned a rural Argentine village into a gigantic game of dominoes.

The final sequence used 6,000 dominoes, 10,000 books, 400 tires, 75 mirrors, 50 fridges, 45 wardrobes and 6 cars. The chain wound from inside a darkened room, out a window, down and across any number of streets, and at one point involved bales of [...]

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Beneath the sands of Mexico are crystals the size of Buicks.

They call it the Crystal Cave of Giants. Up to fifty feet tall, four feet wide, and all a thousand feet underground, these crystals were discovered when a couple of workers drilled a new tunnel into the Naica mine, which was already famous for the [...]

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