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Metal Church

Metal Church
A few hundred years ago, a ship bound for Punta Arenas, Argentina and carrying several thousand tons of steel accidentally "missed" and landed at Puntarenas, Costa Rica instead. (Sure hope that captain was Union.) The nearby town of Grecia, in need of a new church after their old one burned down, found a way to keep the steel from going to waste by building what is believed to be the world's only steel cathedral. Sure enough, if you pound your fist against the side of it, it sounds like the hull of a giant ship.

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