Places

Mexico City Mexican wrestling, or lucha libre, is a huge spectator sport, characterised by bling, spandex and colourful masks. El Cuadrilátero is a wrestling-themed fonda (small restaurant) founded by the parents of lucha libre star Juan…

American Museum of Natural History, New York One of the largest in the world, the museum attracts 5 million people every year and is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections

‘The parrot with its squinting eye half-open was the beginning of the project; a “tropical” symbol for colours. It was later coloured by a person with colour blindness, not aware of which colours she was using yet applying them quite…

Lloyd Mitchell preparing vegetables for his entries in the flower show, Dolton, August 1982 By confining himself mostly to a radius of 10 miles from his home, Ravilious was able to develop an intimacy with his subjects.

The Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Wonder Bread Bakery, and Sheffield Farms buildings stand on part of the grounds of the 1939 New York World's Fair.

A truck rumbles down the ‘rollercoaster’, a section of road with a series of steep hills near Yukon River Camp.

The Bath Priory, Bath This late-Georgian, honey-hued Bath stone manor is a small but perfectly formed country house hotel, surrounded by lofty cedar trees and set in four acres of beautifully landscaped gardens. Rooms are sumptuous and…

The plants are harvested after mid-August and visitors will have to wait for next summer to see rice paddy art again.

Dave’s Restaurant, New York, 1984

Barcelona, Spain