Home to half the world's people, cities are the world's crossroads. They are engines of economic growth and bastions of poverty; epicenters of culture, freedom, and innovation, but hotbeds of crime and corruption.
Travel journalist Rick Steves
and Iranian photographer Abdi Sami traveled
through Iran
to capture and convey the humanity of the Iranian people and explore the ancient and complex
history of a nation that is so often demonized by American media.