Preserved heads decorated with tā moko, or facial tattoos, were sacred objects to New Zealand's Māori. Then Europeans started collecting them.

The Pacific Northwest is particularly known for their sea monsters, largely because of the continuity of stories about unidentified sea creatures.

Hawai‘i has been a state for fifty-seven years, but its history goes back much further. 

Canada Day celebrates a country that, like so many in the world, is in fact a superimposition onto older lands and cultures.