Art Deco was famed as an international style, from New York’s Empire State Building, to Kaunas, Lithuania. Add to that Art Deco in Nebraska, on the Great Plains! A wonderfully preserved assemblage of Art Deco elements and inspirations is Omaha’s Union Station, which began construction in 1929 and opened in 1931. Today it is the Durham Museum, so worth a visit.

As striking as the exterior is, inside (and available to view for visitors to the splendid museum) is much more.

Even the benches in the waiting hall are marked by this style.

[Photos by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius]