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Picher, Oklahoma was a thriving lead and zinc mining boomtown that helped America win two World Wars. Today it's a federally evacuated ghost town poisoned beyond repair — and…
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In 1971, the town of Times Beach, Missouri paid waste-oil hauler Russell Bliss to spray oil on its 23 miles of dirt roads to suppress dust. The town didn't…
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From 1903 to 1957, the tiny Greek island of Spinalonga off the coast of Crete operated as one of Europe's last leper colonies. Patients arrived through "Dante's Gate" —…
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Across the former Soviet Union, scattered along rural roads from Estonia to Kazakhstan, stand thousands of bus stops that became unintentional modernist art. Soviet architecture was famously rigid —…
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Salina Turda is a 2,000-year-old salt mine in Transylvania. Closed for production in 1932, it sat largely forgotten until 1992 when it reopened as something unprecedented: an underground amusement…
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Coober Pedy sits 846 kilometers north of Adelaide in the South Australian Outback, where summer temperatures regularly exceed 40°C and have reached above 50°C. To survive the heat, more…