Here's a few from each: Music: Nirvana (of course), Black Star (Mos Def+ Talib Kweli), Portishead, Björk, Nine Inch Nails, HEALTH, Tricky, Tool, Wu-Tang Clan, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, HTRK Movies: West-Coppola, Godard, Fellini, Malick, Scorsese, Soderberg, Almodóvar East-Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Oshii, Wong Kar Wai (王家衛), Hou Hsiao Hsien (侯孝賢), Tran Anh Hung, Ann Hui (許鞍華), Le You (婁燁) Books: Underworld, Freedomland, Beloved, Wonder Boys, The God of Small Things, Disgrace, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Damascus Gate, The Quiet American, Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns

The most amazing place I've seen may be the Old City of Jerusalem. I'm not religious at all, but it is crazy to see a place with so much different significance for different religions that has been through war and constant political turmoil continue to serve many of the spiritual and communal functions it did in ancient times.