Villages

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A village in India with a mysteriously high number of twins.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

A collection of crumbling mansions stand as a reminder of a more prosperous time in this Indian village.