World's Largest Tortilla in Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico

In Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico, there stands an unusual monument to cultural identity: the world's largest tortilla. Created in twenty thirteen by art teacher Enrique Ramos, the three-meter-wide cornmeal disk became a canvas for an intricate sculpture—over four hundred fifty miniature figures carved from dough, depicting everything from the Monument to the Revolution to pre-Hispanic masks to characters from Mexican cinema. When Ramos finished, the piece weighed four hundred kilos. Per Atlas Obscura, it's a literal embodiment of a Mexican saying: that Mexicans are 'children of corn,' their history and identity inseparable from this grain.

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