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On the outskirts of Beijing, roughly 20 miles from the capital's center near the famous Badaling section of the Great Wall, an unfinished fairy-tale castle once rose out of…
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Between the 1840s and 1860s, hundreds of thousands of Americans loaded covered wagons and set out on the grueling, months-long journey along the Oregon Trail, and what they packed…
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In Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, roughly five miles from the town of Chambord, sits Val-Jalbert, a remarkably intact company town that offers visitors something few other ghost towns can: the…
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High in the Garnet Mountains east of Missoula, Montana, at an elevation of roughly 6,000 feet, sits Garnet, a gold rush boomtown whose weathered wooden buildings remain standing decades…
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For many American travelers, a visit to Normandy carries a personal weight that few other destinations match, a chance to walk the ground where relatives, or an entire generation,…
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High in Bulgaria's Central Balkan Mountains, at 1,432 meters above sea level, a massive concrete disc rises from a remote peak like something that fell from the sky. Officially…