The Bahamas: 700 Islands, Most of Them Still Uninhabited
The Bahamas is made up of roughly 700 islands and over 2,000 small cays, yet fewer than 40 of those islands are…
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Barbados: A Caribbean Island That Was Never Actually Colonised From Anywhere Else
Barbados holds an unusual distinction among Caribbean islands, it changed colonial hands only once in its history, settled directly by the English…
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Panama: A Country Defined by an 80-Kilometre Shortcut
The Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across just 80 kilometres of isthmus, eliminates a journey around the entire tip…
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Yosemite’s El Capitan: A Wall of Granite That Redefined Climbing
El Capitan rises roughly 900 metres in a single, nearly vertical granite face above Yosemite Valley, a scale of sheer rock that…
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Zion National Park: A Canyon Carved by a River Still at Work
Zion Canyon was carved by the Virgin River over roughly 13 million years, a comparatively small, unremarkable-looking waterway that has nonetheless cut…
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Bergen: A City That Learned to Live With Rain
Bergen receives rain on roughly 240 days a year, among the wettest cities in Europe, a climate shaped by its position on…
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Trondheim: Norway’s Original Capital, Still Guarded by a Cathedral
Trondheim served as Norway’s first capital, founded by the Viking king Olav Tryggvason in 997 CE, and remained the country’s political and…
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Savannah’s River Street: Cobblestones Laid by Ships That Never Sailed Home
The cobblestones lining Savannah’s River Street weren’t quarried locally, they arrived as ballast in the holds of merchant ships during the 18th…
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Charleston: A City Preserved by Economic Decline, Then Saved on Purpose
Charleston’s remarkably intact historic architecture owes a great deal to an economic downturn nobody would have wished for, the city’s plantation-based economy…
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Nashville’s Music Row: A Neighbourhood That Built an Industry From Houses
Nashville’s Music Row developed almost by accident in the 1950s, when record labels and music publishers began buying up ordinary residential houses…
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Denver: A City Built a Mile High, Almost by Coincidence
Denver’s nickname, the Mile High City, refers to its elevation, exactly 5,280 feet, or one mile, above sea level, a figure precise…
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San Sebastian: A Small Basque City With More Michelin Stars Than Almost Anywhere
San Sebastian, a city of roughly 180,000 people on Spain’s northern Basque coast, holds one of the highest concentrations of Michelin-starred restaurants…
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