In most places, corn is just food. But in Mexico, especially among its Indigenous communities, corn—or maíz—is life, ancestry, memory, and god. Welcome to the Sacred Corn Festivals, where ancient traditions still sing the praises of the golden grain.

You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s just another quaint Tudor house on a cobbled English street—wooden beams, leaning windows, and a heavy oak door that looks like it has witnessed a few centuries. But this half-timbered cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon isn’t just old—it’s iconic. This is the house where William Shakespeare was born in 1564. And today, it stands as one of the most lovingly preserved literary relics in the world.