Los Angeles, USA

Los Angeles, nicknamed 'Mural Capital of the World,' hosts over 2,000 murals, 50% more than the average for major U.S. cities. Its standout feature, the Great Wall of Los Angeles, stretches 2,754 feet in the Tujunga Wash, painted by Judy Baca and community volunteers from 1974 to 1983, remaining the world's longest mural. Artists like Shepard Fairey, Cleon Peterson, and Cryptik use the city's building facades as their primary canvases, while East LA's Self Help Graphics anchors a Chicano civil rights mural tradition dating back to the 1970s. Faster than the typical up-and-coming art scene in its cultural impact, LA's murals fuse neighborhood identity, political memory, and artistic ambition onto concrete, offering an intimate yet sprawling urban gallery.