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remcrae

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artist. sometimes writer about the internet and cognition and "Benjaminian Fossil"-type symbolic repetition across time. into the structural dynamics of post-revolutionary historiography. thinks dogs are awesome. likes a good beer, peaty scotch, hunks of cheese, pickles and old port.

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Cementerio Numero 3 de Playa Ancha

Valparaiso, Chile

Cementerio Numero 3 de Playa Ancha

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

Dissidents Cemetery

Valparaiso, Chile

The Dissidents Cemetery

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

Laguna del Diamante

Laguna Diamante, Argentina

Laguna del Diamante

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

Taquile Island

Puno, Peru

Taquile Island

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Chullpa

Puno, Peru

Sillustani

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

Petroglyph of a llama. (Wikimedia Commons)

Arequipa, Peru

Toro Muerto

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

Row after row of skulls

Lima, Peru

The Room of 10,000 Ancient Skulls

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Chucuito Temple of Fertility

Chucuito Province, Peru

Chucuito Temple of Fertility

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

Example of pyramid shaped truncated ridge spurs

Manu, Peru

Pyramids of Paratoari

Mysterious "dots" seen from a satellite in southeast Peru.

From Temple of the Sun -- Pacific Ocean in distance

Lima, Peru

Pachacamac

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

Wall detail at Cerro Sechin

Casma District, Peru

Cerro Sechin

The depictions of slaughter are surprisingly detailed at this mysterious ancient site.

Huaca Pucllana in Miraflores

Lima, Peru

Huaca Pucllana

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Tomb of Enrique Torres Belón

Lampa, Peru

Tomb of Enrique Torres Belón

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

Mountain peaks rise from the horizon above Apachetas in the foreground

Chivay, Peru

Apachetas of Chivay

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Church ruin layered with centuries of destruction in the distance

Zaña, Peru

The Not-So-Abandoned Town of Zaña

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Cuween Hill Cairn

Finstown, Scotland

Cuween Hill Cairn

Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.

Maeshowe

Stromness, Scotland

Maeshowe

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

Tsarsky Kurgan

Kerch, Ukraine

Tsarsky Kurgan

This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.

Tomb of the Eagles
Permanently Closed

Liddel, Scotland

Tomb of the Eagles

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

Tombs of Sipán

Lambayeque, Peru

Tombs of Sipán

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

Zigzag aqueduct

Chamis, Peru

Cumbe Mayo and Los Frailones

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

Looking down to the lower level structures

Urubamba, Peru

Wiñay Wayna

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Brain Museum

Lima, Peru

Brain Museum

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

Aramu Muru

Peru

Aramu Muru

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

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