In the 1970s, Villa Epecuén, a tourist village on Lago Epecuén in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, had a population of more 5,000 with 300 thriving businesses and tens of thousands of annual visitors. However, wet weather patterns caused Lago Epecuén and on November 10, 1985, the nearby dam broke, starting a gradual…

Were the Selk'nam the Sumos of South America? Bones of an extinct people of Tierra del Fuego, "the Land of Fire," suggest they may indeed have been the mighty wrestlers that Charles Darwin and others said they were.

Christopher Nolan's dream heist flick Inception avoided the obnoxious amusement park tie-in, but that hasn't stopped Black Sheep Films from creating their own Inception Park in Buenos Aires. But the real question is, "Do you have to kill yourself to find the exit?"

Well this is unsettling. The fish you're looking at was recently caught in an Argentinian reservoir lake. The thing is, it's a reservoir lake that a nearby nuclear facility just happens to pump water into on a regular basis, meaning this is one of those rare examples where a three-eyed animal isn't cool.

The fjords of Norway and the rugged coasts of the Patagonia region of Argentina are quite literally on opposite ends of the Earth, separated by thousands of miles and multiple hemispheres. And yet the two combine for one archaeological goldmine.

In August 2006, designer Pablo Curutchet placed a 28-foot-tall, 882-pound cardboard box golem leering at pedestrians in Cordoba, Argentina. Unfortunately for this giant, a steady rain could spell the end of his reign of terror.

Here's some more weirdness from Argentina, courtesy of the eminently entertaining Inexplicata blog. According to police of the town of Suncho Corral, an "imp" with a proclivity for boxing is making residents' lives extremely harrowing.

Here's another addition to the burgeoning Argentinian UFO files. An angel and/or space squid was recently unveiled by Argentinean news, and it unabashedly waggled its cosmic tendrils at a confused cameraman. Saucy cephalopod seraphim, taunting us Earthlings with your appendages!

Darwin's frog, found in the forest streams of Argentina and Chile, has quite possibly the weirdest birthing method of any creature. Instead of hanging out in ponds, these little tadpoles help give new meaning to fathers with big fat mouths.

Charlton Heston's ape overlords may have spoken English, but telling those damn dirty apes to get their stinking paws off of you can be said in any tongue. Here are Planet of the Apes comic covers from around the globe.