This church is the only remaining building left from the village of San Juan Parangaricutiro, located in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. What happened? Not far from there In 1943 the Volcán de Parícutin started to rise out of a farmer's cornfield. In the following irruption, it buried 2 villages under lava and ashes, including San Juan Parangaricutiro.
The church of San Juan is now an abandoned ruin in the middle of nowhere. During the eruption, the lava flowed around and into the church, and covered 3/4 of the town. Just beneath the church, the old houses and buildings keep buried under the rocks.
No one died from the Parícutin volcano as all residents were evacuated before the villages were covered in lava. At the end of this phase, the volcano had grown 336 metres tall. For the next eight years the volcano would continue erupting.
coordinates : 19°31'59.58"N 102°14'49.88"W
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A mysterious plane buried in more than a meter of sand on west shore of Mexican coast. Many different stories exist about the presence of the plane in that place, some say the plane was used by narco-trafficker and shot by the Mexican army, others say they had to make a emergency landing, others that there was no drug involved in this story at all.
Whatever the story is, the place looks beautifully enhanced by this immobile bird.
coordinates : 15°40'24.36"N 96°35'43.59W
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