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Lost Villages
Small communities that the modern map has mostly forgotten.
A village does not need to be abandoned to be lost. Some are simply off the route, on the wrong side of a river, or kept quiet by the people who still live there.
We write about these communities with care, and with the understanding that publication is not the same thing as invitation.
Articles in Lost Villages
Villages
Ancient Villages Still Alive Today
Matera's cave-dwellers' return, Şirince in Turkey's Aegean hills, the Sani Valley of Lesotho — eight villages older than most countries, still inhabited, still functioning.
Read articleBorders
Forgotten Border Towns
Görlitz, where Polish and German halves face each other across a footbridge; Narva, an Estonian–Russian standoff in stone; Goris, the Armenian gateway to a closed Iranian crossing — eight border towns where the line is the story.
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Cities
Urban landscapes that feel like fiction, with their own atmosphere and pace.
Architecture
Overlooked buildings, strange facades, and quiet masterpieces.
Railways
Forgotten lines, atmospheric stations, and journeys worth the long ride.
Museums
Tiny, strange, single-subject collections curated by obsessives.