Visit the Merry Cemetery of Săpânța

Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.

Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.

Amazonian ceremonial headdresses woven from human hair and macaw feathers, in the Mato Grosso museums.

Knotted by hand at a rate of centimetres a week; the art Persia is still measured by.

Hand-beaten silver and gold crosses, each parish with its own design, carried at Timkat.

Highland Sulawesi region of boat-shaped tongkonan houses and cliff graves, where funerals last for days and draw the whole village.

An avenue of turquoise-tiled mausoleums in Samarkand, the finest tilework in Central Asia.

Explore the underground ossuaries in Paris, holding the remains of more than six million people