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There are places you visit, and there are places that rearrange your sense of what human beings are capable of building. Italy's Renaissance landmarks belong firmly in the second…
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There's a particular heartbreak in visiting a place you've dreamed about, only to find it so overwhelmed by crowds, commercialization, and the sheer weight of its own fame that…
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Bodie, California reached a peak population of 10,000 in 1879, with 65 saloons, a bustling Chinatown, and a homicide reputation severe enough that one child wrote in her…
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In 2014, a council in North Wales declared the seaside village of Fairbourne would have to be abandoned by 2054 due to rising seas. A decade later, the residents…
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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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Sicilian and Sardinian towns have sold thousands of abandoned houses to foreigners for the symbolic price of €1. The hidden costs, deadlines, and bureaucracy mean only a fraction of…