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Obidos, Portugal (by Artur Schodzinski)

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Zamosc, Poland (by Artur Schodzinski)

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Torres del Paine - Chile (by Snowscat)

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Tanzania

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Triglav National Park, Slovenia | Auer Images

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Djibouti, 1938. Edgar Aubert de la Rue

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Schleife (Slepo), Saxony. Preparing the Bescherkind (dźěćetko). Photo by Kurt Heine, not dated.

In Sorbian custom, specifically in Protestant communities of Lusatia (Lausitz), the oldest unmarried girl in a village is dressed up elaborately, her face completely veiled in tulle, and she carries a  bundle of birch branches, ribbons, sweets, and fruits. During the pre-Christmas season she goes door-to-door with two companions and strikes houses and their inhabitants with the branches to bring them good health. She also strokes the cheeks of children and gives them sweets. In order to maintain her anonymity she does not speak.

This tradition is inscribed in Germany’s Nationwide Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Sorbische Institut / Serbski institut Bautzen

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Rashaida girl in Sudan, around 1990. Fabby Nielsen

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Sabiha Gökçen, Sahavet Karapars and other Turkish female military pilots 1942

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Our Lady of Saidnaya Monastery, Syria

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Bangladesh

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世界文化遺産の白川郷　合掌造り

真夏の白川郷暑かったです

海外の観光客もたくさんです

展望台（撮影ポイント）で写真撮りたかったけど

暑いし混んでるしで

断念。残念。

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a yoruk girl from Isparta

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Temne woman, Sierra Leone, by Xavi de las Heras

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"Beypazarı Bindallısı" traditional turkish wedding dress, Ankara

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Puno, Peru: A mass wedding ceremony where 50 couples were married at the shore of Lake Titicaca in the Aymara district of Acora. The public act was organised by the local municipality and held applying a mixture of modern and ancestral Andean customs, including the presence of their native Yatiri (Shaman) who made a payment to the Pachamama (Mother Earth) to wish good to the couples.

Photograph: Carlos Mamani/AFP/Getty Images

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Woman in the National Costume of the Jamnica Pisarovinska, Zagreb, Croatia (1976) - Dinko Vranković