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Ostuni rises from a 218-meter hill in Italy's Puglia region — and every building is painted brilliant white. The whitewashing isn't decorative. It traces to specific 17th-century plague-era public…
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Svalbard sits halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole — Arctic archipelago where the human population (~2,500 residents) is outnumbered by approximately 3,000 polar bears in the broader…
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Theth sits in northern Albania's Albanian Alps (Bjeshkët e Nemuna or "Accursed Mountains") — substantially remote village of approximately 200-300 permanent residents where traditional Ottoman-era cultural elements have persisted…
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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" —…