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Across rural America, thousands of small towns are defined locally by a specific feature: a single working stoplight. The phrase "one-stoplight town" appears throughout American literature, music, and conversation…
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The town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales sits on slate deposits that, at industry's peak in the 1880s, roofed buildings across the British Empire and beyond. By the…
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Pripyat was a model Soviet city of 49,360 people built specifically to house workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. On April 27, 1986 — 36 hours after Reactor…
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Buñol is a small town of approximately 9,000 people in eastern Spain. For one hour every August, 20,000 attendees pelt each other with 150 tonnes of overripe tomatoes in…
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Ōkunoshima sits in Japan's Inland Sea, a 30-minute ferry from Hiroshima. It's famous globally as "Rabbit Island" — a place where 700+ feral rabbits approach tourists for food and…
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In 1965, the British government flooded the Tryweryn Valley in north Wales to create a reservoir for Liverpool's industrial water supply. Sixty-seven people lost their homes. A 145-year-old chapel…