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Across American history, certain places were designated for people the rest of society wanted removed — the contagious, the institutionalized, the condemned, the unclaimed dead. Isolated by water, distance,…
The Island That Was Once the Most Crowded Place on Earth — Then Everyone Vanished in a Single Season
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Off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, sits a tiny island that looks, from a distance, like a battleship rising from the sea — a dense cluster of crumbling concrete…
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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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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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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" —…