Atlas Obscura
The Press Mosaic in Baku, Azerbaijan
The building that printed Soviet Azerbaijan's newspapers and books is shaped like an open book. It takes a moment to register from the pavement, and then it becomes difficult to see anything else: two great pages picked out in cut stone, spread wide across the front of the printing house. Worked into them is a history of writing. Egyptian hieroglyphs sit at one end and a Mayan calendar at the o…