See a Persian rug woven in Shiraz

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

The "valley of heaven", craft and culture.

Cemetery of brightly painted crosses telling each villager’s life in verse.

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

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

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

The "Pink Mosque", famous for the kaleidoscope its stained glass throws at dawn.

One of the world’s largest squares, framed by the tiled masterpieces of Safavid Isfahan.