Museo Casa Carlos Gardel

This guide to the Museo Casa Carlos Gardel in Buenos Aires opens with a three-year gap between two competing birth stories for the tango icon: the Uruguayan version he gave a consulate in 1920, and a French birth certificate that surfaced decades later in Toulouse. It follows why a young man born to an unmarried laundress in France might invent a different homeland, and how convincingly the lie held up over the years. You'll also hear about the Abasto courtyard house Gardel bought once his records and films made him wealthy, and the mother he moved in beside him.