Parachico
Traditional street dancers honor Chiapa de Corzo’s patron saints each January, blending indigenous Maya ceremony with Catholic celebration in a living festival that has merged cultures for centuries.
Irish harping
Irish harping is the art of playing a wire-strung triangular harp, a practice rooted in Gaelic nobility that demands exceptional technical skill and years of disciplined study.
Mudiyettu
A ritual theatre and dance drama performed in Kerala temples, Mudiyettu enacts the mythological battle between the goddess Kali and the demon Darika through elaborate movement and devotional practice.
Xuan paper craft
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
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.