Front Cover: Depicted here on tiles in Seville, Spain, Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes’ road-trip duo of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote learned from each other despite—or because of—their different temperaments and backgrounds. Photo by Tom Verde.

Back Cover: Flush with commercial ambitions, Cairo, Illinois, published dozens of picture postcards, more than all of the other Cairos in the us combined. Postcard courtesy of Jonathan Friedlander.