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Was Your Salad Fork Made in a Former Utopia?

From your fridge to your silverware, you've probably benefited from a utopia.
Eric Grundhauser September 16, 2016
Visitors Center in front, dwelling in back
Auburn, Kentucky

South Union Shaker Village

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.
science fiction

One of the Earliest Science Fiction Books Was Written in the 1600s by a Duchess

Meet Lady Margaret Cavendish.
Natalie Zarrelli September 16, 2016
literature

Exploring the Strange Pleasures of Cockaigne, a Medieval Peasant's Dream World

The birds fly right into your mouth, and there isn't animal poop everywhere!
Eric Grundhauser September 15, 2016
Utopia College in Eureka, Kansas. Later renamed Midwest Institute.
Eureka, Kansas

Utopia College

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.
utopias

The Commune in Ethiopia Where Feminism is the Law

How a village in Ethiopia has come to serve as a model for the rights of women, children and the elderly.
Zac Crellin September 14, 2016
The Thomas Hughes Library in Historic Rugby.
Rugby, Tennessee

Rugby Colony

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Lyford's Tower with Angel Island in the background
Belvedere Tiburon, California

Lyford's Tower

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.
The old print shop at Brook Farm
Boston, Massachusetts

Brook Farm

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Aerial View with Plac Centralny at bottom center
Krakow, Poland

Nowa Huta

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.
nazis

The Bonkers Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe

It's not just the plot of a Philip K. Dick book—a man spent his life trying to make Atlantropa happen.
Toon Lambrechts September 13, 2016
disasters

The Illustrated Map of America's Worst Utopias

The road to weird food communes and sex cults is paved with good intentions.
Lauren Young September 12, 2016
utopias

There's a Tiny Utopia in the Middle of Queens

There is confusion over whether it even exists.
Atlas Obscura September 12, 2016
Cloquet, Minnesota

Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Auroville
Bommayapalayam, India

Auroville

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
"Vuel Villa" by Xul Solar
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Xul Solar Museum

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.
Army drills in front of the Crown Hotel. Designed by W.C. Harris, architect, this was meant to be the working man's hotel. It was less luxurious but still far above most hotels of the day. In 1916 the 185th Battalion was stationed at Broughton. The town had been deserted, but had fine quarters for the military: officers and the hospital were in the Broughton Arms; the non-commisioned officers at The Crown Hotel; and the enlisted men in the forty-three cottages that had been built for miners.
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Broughton, Nova Scotia

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.
gardens

These Utopian City Maps Have Influenced Urban Planners for Over a Century

Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities are now embedded into London and New York.
Sarah Laskow September 12, 2016