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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…
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Hashima Island held the highest population density in human history, the place that inspired the villain's lair in Skyfall, and the site where hundreds of forced laborers died in…
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The Aral Sea covered 26,000 square miles in 1960. Today, more than 90% of it is gone. The fishing port of Moynaq, Uzbekistan now sits over 90 miles…