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.
Carnival of Barranquilla
Four days of street dances, parades, and cumbia music transform Barranquilla into a celebration blending Spanish, African, and indigenous traditions before Lent.
Nanjing Yunjin brocade
Cloud brocade woven in Nanjing since the Song dynasty: shuttle-loomed silk enriched with gold and silver threads, refined through centuries into one of China’s most accomplished textile arts.
Sinjska alka
An annual equestrian tournament in Croatian Sinj where mounted riders lance a suspended metal ring while wearing ceremonial regalia, honouring a 1715 victory and the Assumption of Mary.
Pahlevani and zoorkhaneh rituals
An ancient Iranian martial system of ritual movement, strength training and folk wrestling performed in sacred domed spaces, blending pre-Islamic tradition with Persian Shia Islam.
Passeig de Gràcia
Barcelona’s iconic boulevard through Eixample, lined with modernist masterpieces and Spain’s most expensive storefronts.