Baker City Tower
Baker City Tower is Oregon’s tallest building east of the Cascades—a nine-story Art Deco landmark completed in 1929 in historic Baker City.
Naadam
Mongolia’s midsummer festival of wrestling, horse racing and archery celebrating the “three games of men” across the Mongolian cultural sphere.
Black Cat Tavern
A historic gay bar in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, where one of America’s first LGBT protests against police violence took place in 1967—more than two years before Stonewall.
TWA Flight Center
Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport is a modernist icon featuring a shell-concrete roof shaped like aircraft wings. Now the centerpiece of the TWA Hotel, it remains a landmark of American architectural design.
Safferstone House
A 1925 Spanish Mission Revival residence in Little Rock, designed by Sanders and Ginocchio and recognized on the National Register of Historic Places for its terra cotta roof and distinctive arched porch.
Leesville station
Kansas City Southern Depot in Leesville is a 1916 railway station that served as the commercial hub of Vernon Parish’s lumber boom, now the Museum of West Louisiana.
Poblenou Cemetery
Barcelona’s East Cemetery (1775–1898) maps the city’s social hierarchies through burial space: egalitarian niches for many, lavish monuments for the wealthy, and the haunting sculpture ‘The Kiss of Death’ for all to contemplate.
Taquile textile art
On a high island in Lake Titicaca, Quechua weavers create textiles using traditional techniques that encode cultural identity and social meaning in patterns and color.
Lakalaka
Tonga’s national dance, Lakalaka features standing performers executing precise arm gestures and sung speeches at state ceremonies and royal occasions.
Cultural space of the Semeiskie
The Semeiskie are an Orthodox Old Believer community in Russia’s Transbaikal whose sacred rites, songs, and oral traditions have preserved a 17th-century faith rejected by the state church.