Showing posts with the label Towns

Magnitogorsk: Russia’s Steel Heart

Jul 20, 2017

At the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains in Russia, about 140 km west of the border with Kazakhstan, there are some hills that a...

The Model Villages of Britain

Jul 11, 2017

Starting from the late 18th century, many English landowners and industrialists began building villages to provide housing for their workers...

Pomerode: The Most German Town In Brazil

Jun 8, 2017

About thirty kilometers to the north of Blumenau, a city in Brazil, lies the town of Pomerode, so named because its founders came from Pomer...

Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America

Jun 1, 2017

More than a hundred years after Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage in 1492, a team of roughly one hundred colonists left England in late ...

Vilarinho da Furna: A Drowned Roman Village

Mar 27, 2017

Vilarinho da Furna, in the municipality of Terras de Bouro in the Braga district, in northern Portugal, was an old village that was erased f...

Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real

Mar 19, 2017

In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York. It was positioned near an unmarked dirt road that l...

Chaiten: The Town Buried By A Volcano

Mar 7, 2017

Early in the morning of May 2, 2008, a volcano located about 10 km to the north of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southe...

Pioneertown: A Movie Set That Became A Real Town

Feb 23, 2017

In 1946, a bunch of Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, and Russell Hayden —tired of travelling to far-off locations to sho...

The Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou

Feb 15, 2017

The town of Ait-Ben-Haddou, located on the southern slopes of the High Atlas Mountains, is one of the most spectacular manmade sights along ...

Verkhoyansk: Siberia’s Pole of Cold

Feb 9, 2017

In the remote Yakutia region of Siberia, more than a hundred kilometers inside the Arctic Circle, lies the small town of Verkhoyansk. Winter...

Kitsault: The Ghost Town Where Lights Are Still On But No One’s Home

Jan 18, 2017

Think ghost town and you’ll probably imagine ruins —roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coa...

Belchite: The Ruins of The Spanish Civil War

Dec 20, 2016

Forty kilometer southeast of the city of Zaragoza, in north-eastern Spain, lies the ghost town of Belchite, that was destroyed in 1937 durin...

The Plague Village Of Eyam And Its Great Sacrifice

Dec 12, 2016

The Great Plague of London affected many places across England, but one small village in Derbyshire called Eyam, will always be remembered f...

The Remarkable Story of St Kilda’s Residents

Dec 6, 2016

The remote archipelago of St Kilda, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is truly an isolated place. Located some 64 km west of the ...

Bozouls: A French Town Perched Above A ‘Hole’

Nov 22, 2016

Trou de Bozouls, or “the hole of Bozouls”, is a large horseshoe-shaped canyon located near the commune of Bozouls in the Aveyron department ...

The Sunken City on Kekova Island

Nov 19, 2016

The ancient Lycian city of Simena, often referred to as Kekova-Simena, once straddled the long and narrow island of Kekova in the Mediterran...

Shani Shingnapur: The Village Without Doors

Nov 9, 2016

About 300 km east of Mumbai, in the remote Indian village of Shani Shingnapur, crime is a concept so alien that villagers here have stopped ...

The Toxic Ghost Town of Picher

Nov 1, 2016

The northeastern corner of the US state of Oklahoma was once the most productive lead and zinc mining areas of the world. The metals were di...

La Boca: Buenos Aires’ Colorful District

Oct 27, 2016

The neighborhood of La Boca, in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, is famous for two things —the football stadium La Bombonera, and El C...

The Town of Bull Puns

Oct 27, 2016

One hundred sixty kilometers north of Wellington, in New Zealand, at the junction of State Highways 1 and 3, lies the small town of Bulls. Y...