A complete circuit of walls is rare, because walls are expensive to maintain and inconvenient to keep once nobody is attacking. These fifteen survived, and most can be walked.
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America's most famous road doesn't officially exist. Look for Route 66 on a modern highway map and you'll find a ghost — decommissioned in 1985, its shield signs taken…
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Drive into the hills of eastern Pennsylvania to the spot where Centralia used to be, and you'll find something that shouldn't exist: a town-shaped emptiness. Streets laid out in…
A grand hotel lobby is a piece of architecture the public was always meant to walk into. These twelve have histories worth knowing and interiors worth seeing, and in most…
The Dead Sea Is Not a Sea, and Its Water Is So Dense With Salt That a Human Body Cannot Sink Into It
The Dead Sea produces one of the most recognisable travel photographs there is: a person lying on their back on the surface of the water, reading a newspaper, entirely unsupported.…
There are natural phenomena that photographs oversell, and this is one of the few that photographs undersell, largely because cameras struggle with it.
The effect is simple to describe. In…