Magnitogorsk: Russia’s Steel Heart
Kaushik Patowary
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...
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The Model Villages of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Anonymous
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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...
