Laputa was the flying island of mad scientists, as it was imagined by Jonathan Swift in his most famous, satyrical novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). An island inhabited by people of great minds and culture, but with little practical sense, lost in their speculations. These may be the shared feature between our Lapůta and Swift’s. Citing another author which is also dear to us, i.e. Terry Pratchett, we could state that on Laputa we discuss «unusual, cruel geography». A flying island is surely unusual, and also cruel from a geographic standpoint, as it would drive any cartographer crazy! Yet, as it escapes any attempt to enforce normality besides any geographic convention, it is also the ideal place where to find curious, bizarre things and ideas, abandoned technologies, art, music, fascinating and little-known-of places. A place where broken objects are fixed, not disposed of.