Not sure why, but the first thing that came to mind was Motel of the Mysteries. If there's ever a catastrophe where a significant amount of information is lost

Not sure why, but the first thing that came to mind was Motel of the Mysteries. If there's ever a catastrophe where a significant amount of information is lost, one can only imagine what our distant descendants (or perhaps an alien species) will think when they uncover these structures - what inferences they'll draw about our lifestyles in the absence of the actual context in which these structures were built.