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Difunta Correa

This is not a roadside recycling center, it's a shrine. In the 1840s there lived a woman named Deolinda Correa who, during the Argentine civil wars, followed her husband's battalion while carrying food, water and their infant son. At a certain point she could no longer keep up.

She was found dead of thirst along the roadside with her baby alive and still suckling. Truckers are devoted to La Difunta and ascribe miraculous powers to her, but the Catholic Church wants nothing to do with it. Shrines like these, littered with bottles of water, can be found all over Argentina.