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Anywhere but Here: Deserted Banking Empire turned Skyscraper Slum

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It was built for stockbrokers and bankers in their thousand dollar suits to make million dollar deals, but for nearly two decades it has held the less impressive title of the world’s tallest squat. Welcome to the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, more commonly known as the Torre David (the Tower of David) in Caracas, Venezuela, an unfinished skyscraper [...]

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my! The Daredevil Petting Zoo

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So think of the biggest and baddest predators in the animal kingdom, the most powerful carnivores in the food chain, and those are the guys you’ll be getting up close and personal with at the Lujan petting zoo in Argentina. Just outside Buenos Aires, a controversial zoo allows visitors past the iron bars that normally [...]

The Town that spent 25 Years Underwater

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This is Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town south of Buenos Aires that spent a quarter of a century underwater. Established in the 1920s on the banks of a salt lake, the town was home to over 5,000 residents and a holiday destination to thousands more vacationers from the Argentinian capital. In 1985, a dam [...]



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