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Pull into Galena, Illinois and you're surrounded by 19th-century brick buildings on the same streets that hosted Civil War-era political meetings. Visit Bisbee, Arizona and the mining-era infrastructure remains…
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Pyramiden was the Soviet Union's "ideal society" — a coal-mining town built on Norwegian territory in the high Arctic, complete with the world's northernmost statue of Lenin, a saltwater…
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On December 26, 1900, the relief ship Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mòr lighthouse in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The flag wasn't flying. No one was waiting on the landing. When…
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Craco sits on a 1,300-foot cliff in southern Italy's Basilicata region. People had lived there continuously since the 8th century BC. By 1561 the population had reached 2,590. By…
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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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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…