The artist then super-imposed black-and-white photos of Cuban society from the same era onto these found signs, thus creating a piece of art lodged in a specific time and space, yet which transcends both.
For each trip, decide on a themed splurge or two — transportation, food, arts, lodging — and save on the rest.
Protesters rallied around the art, though, lodging complaints as high as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the murals ultimately prevailed.
SARAH LUCAS Lucas's five-ton painted-bronze horse, "Perceval," is so laden with British references that it threatens to sink as an art work lodged in the heart of tourist New York.
Meanwhile, one of the largest diamond mines in the world has been allowed to open in the park, and wealthy big game hunters from abroad are welcomed to newly constructed state-of-the-art game lodges.
For art historians, the lodge's main attraction is the spectacular and unusual trompe l'oeil in the theater.
They don't "present" as art, yet they lodge in the mind and won't let go, disorienting, irritating, inundating and exhilarating the senses.
The family also operates a perfectly preserved, although remote, Art Deco hunting lodge, Sardar Samand Palace, that is probably a worthwhile destination for its air of time arrested and the sheer number of taxidermy specimens, moth-eaten pelts and rampant tusks.
Zhu Chengru, deputy director of the Forbidden City's Palace Museum, said Chinese officials knew the art in the lodge was significant but kept it closed "because its condition was not very good for viewing".
Beyond that, he is still in possession of a full complement of forts, palaces and a perfectly preserved Art Deco hunting lodge crammed with the remains of the many animals his ancestors lanced, stuck or shot, and had stuffed.
The Bed and Breakfast at Historic Onaledge (336 El Paso Boulevard; reservations, 719-685-2505; www.onaledge.net) is a 1912 Arts and Crafts lodge said to be inhabited by at least five ghosts, including a kindly gentleman named Stew.
