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Most disasters happen fast. An earthquake gives you seconds; a flash flood, minutes. What happened to Thistle, Utah, took weeks — slow enough that residents carried their furniture out…
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An hour inland from the Chilean port city of Iquique, across a plain of the driest desert on Earth, the road arrives at something impossible: an entire town, plaza,…
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New York City hides its strangest place in plain sight. Riding the ferry or crossing a Bronx bridge, you can look out at the East River and see it:…
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Every July 18, Mandela Day marks the birthday of Nelson Mandela with a global call to service, and for travelers, no place brings his story closer than the…
Every traveler knows the deflating feel of a resort strip in shoulder season, shuttered windows, seasonal staff gone home, a town that was never really a town, and every traveler…
Every year the same handful of states sit at the bottom of America's tourism tables, short on theme parks, cruise ports, and bucket-list icons, and every year the travelers who…