Mexico and Peru, with their rich heritage of pre-hispanic architecture, have long had an eye on the past, and are zealous in preserving their Spanish colonial towns.
The VAX remains the single most influential computer of all time--not just because of its pre-eminence among minis in the 1970s and 1980s, but because Ted Hoff so admired it that he used its architecture as the basis of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor.