Holy Land

This guide to Holy Land in Buenos Aires starts underwater, on a stretch of the Río de la Plata that engineers filled in with subway rubble decades before a lawyer named Fernando Pugliese dreamed up a scale model of Jerusalem here for the millennium. You'll hear how a local union donated the reclaimed land, how the archbishop who blessed it in 2000 later became Pope Francis, and about the roughly forty scenes of ancient Jerusalem built across the site. Stand near the artificial mountain for a while and see what draws the crowds back every sixty minutes, jet noise from the neighboring airport and all.