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Most disasters happen fast. An earthquake gives you seconds; a flash flood, minutes. What happened to Thistle, Utah, took weeks — slow enough that residents carried their furniture out…
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Ask Americans to name the great migrations that built the country and you'll hear about Ellis Island, the Oregon Trail, the Great Migration north. Almost nobody mentions the trains…
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An hour inland from the Chilean port city of Iquique, across a plain of the driest desert on Earth, the road arrives at something impossible: an entire town, plaza,…
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New York City hides its strangest place in plain sight. Riding the ferry or crossing a Bronx bridge, you can look out at the East River and see it:…
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Every July 18, Mandela Day marks the birthday of Nelson Mandela with a global call to service, and for travelers, no place brings his story closer than the…
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Drive through the wooded hills of eastern Pennsylvania's anthracite country and you can pass Centralia without noticing it: a grid of empty streets with almost no houses, overgrown sidewalks…