Xuan paper craft, centred in Xuancheng, China, is the handmade production of soft, fine-textured paper essential to Chinese calligraphy and ink painting. UNESCO-inscribed artisans transform plant fibres into sheets that have shaped East Asian aesthetics for over a thousand years.
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.
Mongolia’s midsummer festival of wrestling, horse racing and archery celebrating the “three games of men” across the Mongolian cultural sphere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tonga’s national dance, Lakalaka features standing performers executing precise arm gestures and sung speeches at state ceremonies and royal occasions.
