 In episode 8 "Comfort Food" of US TV series "Pushing Daisies" (second season), a photograph of the front of the Desamparados station is used as the Papen County Convention Center where the piemaker is competing in the comfort food cook-off.The House of Peruvian Literature () was inaugurated in Desamparados station by President Alan García on 20 October 2009.Architect Juan Carlos Burga was commissioned to design the museographic work.