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Celebrating, life, love, and community, the danzón is very much alive in Mexico City.

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. But then they escaped.

In the perfume capital of India, Kannauj, flower petals are distilled with sandalwood oil to create fragrant essences.

Cannabis farming has a long tradition in northern Morocco: some 300,000 families have long made a living from growing the plant.

In a monastery near Kathmandu, nuns painstakingly create beautiful sand mandalas before destroying them.

For centuries, the inhabitants of the Danish island of Læsø have covered the roofs of their houses with dried-out seaweed. 

The katana, the legendary samurai sword, embodies Japanese culture, spirituality, and discipline.