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Five Ghost Towns Where Nature Took Back What Was Always Hers

Sand in Namibia, vines in China, ash in the Caribbean and Chile: five abandoned places around the world where nature has quietly reclaimed what people left behind.
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What Science Still Doesn’t Know: 10 Unsolved Mysteries

Polar bear resting on the snow in the remote and arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

Svalbard: 10 Surprising Facts About the Last Human Outpost Before the North Pole

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Mavicure: The Hills That Weep When It Rains

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October 30, 2026

Day of the Dead in Mexico City: The Giant Catrina Towering Over the Zócalo

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October 26, 2026

Carved Melons and Candlelight: How Iznájar Welcomes All Saints’ Day

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October 21, 2026

Mountain Gorillas Are Recovering, but a Human Sneeze Could Put Them at Risk

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October 19, 2026

He Was Digging Outside His Home and Found Two Colossi of Ramses II

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October 16, 2026

From Cell to Suite: Inside the Nara Prison Turned Luxury Hotel

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World’s Strangest Beaches: Only the Most Curious Travelers Get Every Answer Right

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Arequipa, the City Its Own Volcanoes Built

Red staircase and carved wooden bookshelves inside the historic Lello Bookstore in Porto.

The Secret of Lello e Irmão in Porto, the Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World

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More Than 1,000 Languages on a Single Island: The Linguistic Enigma of New Guinea

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Trasmoz, the Spanish Village Excommunicated Since the 13th Century and Cursed Since 1511

The Day of the Dead has both Indigenous and Catholic elements.

The Origin of the Day of the Dead: Between the Mexica Underworld and Medieval Europe

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The Big Five and a Private Spa Without Leaving Your Suite: Inside Kuganha

Upper Provence landscape featuring purple blooming lavender fields under a clear sky.

France’s Purple Sea: A Guide to the Lavender Route of Haute-Provence

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Svalbard: 10 Surprising Facts About the Last Human Outpost Before the North Pole

Monumental tomb carved into the rock at the Hegra archaeological site in the Saudi Arabian desert.

Hegra, Petra’s Forgotten Sister: The Colossal Tombs the Desert Kept Hidden for 2,000 Years

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Bir Tawil, the Only Habitable Land on Earth That No Country Wants

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Kola Superdeep Borehole: A Journey to the Deepest Hole on Earth

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A Marble Palace in the Middle of a Lake: Inside Udaipur’s Taj Lake Palace

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

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Only YOU Hotel Atocha: The Historic Madrid Facade That Hides a New York-Inspired Boutique Hotel

Madrid, Spain

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Ace Hotel Brooklyn: The Concrete Bunker Where Brutalism Feels Warm

New York, United States

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Four Seasons Hotel Montreal

Montreal, Canada

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The Lumiares Lisbon: A Tribute to Portuguese Design in the Heart of Bairro Alto

Lisbon, Portugal

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‘The Land of Standing-Up Rocks’: Inside Chiricahua, America’s 64th National Park

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Stepwells: India’s Most Astonishing Architecture Is Nearly 100 Feet Underground

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October 20, 2026

The Winchester Mystery House: 160 Rooms, Stairs to Nowhere, and 38 Years of Construction

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October 26, 2026

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