John O’Groats: A Village Famous Mostly for Not Being Land’s End
John O’Groats sits at the northeastern tip of mainland Scotland and has become popularly known as one end of the longest possible…
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Stirling Castle: The Fortress That Decided Scotland’s Fate Twice
Stirling Castle sits atop a volcanic crag controlling the lowest crossing point of the River Forth, a position of such strategic importance…
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Trafalgar Square: A Monument to a Battle Fought Entirely at Sea
Trafalgar Square was laid out in the 1830s and 1840s on the site of former royal stables, its name and centrepiece column…
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Palm Springs: A Desert Retreat Built on Hollywood’s Two-Hour Rule
Palm Springs’ rise as a Hollywood retreat through the 1930s to 1950s was substantially driven by a clause reportedly written into studio…
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Tampa: A Cigar City Built on Cuban Immigration
Tampa’s Ybor City district was founded in 1885 by cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor, who relocated his operations there from Key West,…
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Annapolis: A Colonial Capital That Briefly Governed a Nation
Annapolis served as the capital of the United States for a brief period between November 1783 and June 1784, during which the…
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Knoxville: The City That Hosted a World’s Fair and Kept the Tower
Knoxville hosted the 1982 World’s Fair, themed around energy, a choice reflecting the city’s proximity to the Tennessee Valley Authority and the…
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The 9/11 Memorial: Two Voids Where the Towers Once Stood
The National September 11 Memorial occupies the footprints of the original Twin Towers, destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,…
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Portland and Mount Hood: A City Defined by a Volcano It Can’t Always See
Mount Hood, Oregon’s tallest peak at 3,429 metres, is a potentially active stratovolcano visible from much of Portland on clear days, its…
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Santa Monica: The Beach Town Built Around a Pier’s Second Act
Santa Monica Pier, the wooden pier that has become the city’s defining symbol, was originally built in 1909 for a more mundane…
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The Great Smoky Mountains: America’s Most Visited, and Its Foggiest
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, straddling the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, is the most visited national park in the United…
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Tromso: The Arctic City Where the Sun Simply Doesn’t Set
Tromso sits roughly 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, far enough north that the city experiences the midnight sun continuously from…
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