Carlos Thays didn’t want Buenos Aires’ parks job handed to him. The French landscape designer insisted on competing against rivals from around the world, and won. The Carlos Thays Botanical Garden opened in 1898, on land he asked the city to set aside.

It’s now a seven-hectare outdoor museum of statues, many of them copies of European originals. One, the Saturnalia group, was censored in 1981 and found three years later in a horse stable, under fertiliser. There’s also one of the last working greenhouses of its type, imported from the 1889 Paris Exhibition.

VoiceMap’s self-guided audio tours use the garden’s statues to tell the stories behind them. They range from a Roman festival many see as Christmas’s ancestor to a Seinfeld joke hidden on a weather monument.