Monowi, Nebraska
Monowi, Nebraska
America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.
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Monowi, Nebraska
America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Rockall, Scotland
British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
France
Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.
California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The world's most remote airport.
French Guiana
An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.
Fingal, Ireland
Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.
Kaumakani, Hawaii
A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.
Havre-Aubert, Québec
A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.
Egeo, Greece
Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.
Port Arthur, Australia
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Sark, Guernsey
The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.
Lido, Italy
The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Honduras
Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.
El Hierro, Spain
This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.