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The California land where no-one can live

25 February 2022
Zack FrankFeatures correspondent
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Despite being located less than 130 miles from downtown Los Angeles, few Americans have heard of Carrizo Plain.

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The magical lake of Kashmir and its splendid houseboats

Home to majestic houseboats and floating gardens, this pristine beauty of Kashmir is on the verge of extinction.

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Saving an Australian paradise's cloud forest

Lord Howe Island: Saving an Australian paradise's 'cloud forest'

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The small Italian village that can't be reached by car

Chamois is Italy’s second highest city, but it’s the first and only without cars.

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Antarctica: The most remote campsite on Earth

Take a look inside an Antarctic campsite and find out how they survive.

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The picturesque ghost town at the edge of the world

Around 200 people still live in and around this abandoned mining town in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.

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'We commute 1,800km to run an outback pub’

The Australian family that travels 1,800km to run an outback pub.

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The caretakers of a remote island between Europe and America

A couple from Dublin have moved to one of Ireland’s most remote islands.

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The remote Chinese village on an 800m-high cliff

They used to call an 800m-high cliff home.

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We went hunting for trolls and found a deeper truth

What we found was the truth behind the myths.

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The remote visa-free island at the top of the world

The world's northernmost town is open to all.

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Surfing with bears in the Russian wilderness

Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula is an unlikely place for a surf school.

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The most pessimistic town in the world

BEST OF 2019 - Puolanka, a small town in Finland, has become famous for its particular brand of pessimism.

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The village that undergoes a mass exodus every autumn

Each autumn, around 3,000 families in Kyrgyzstan move into the forest for the world's most unique harvest.

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Life against the odds in Australia's underground town

Coober Pedy is at the centre of Australia's opal mining industry as well as being a leader in sustainable living.

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The tiny Siberian village steeped in myth

What has been attracting people to the Siberian village of Okunevo for thousands of years?

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The last inhabitant of Argentina's flooded city

Villa Epecuén was a small Argentinian town inundated by a lake in 1985, only to re-emerge again in 2010.

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The post office 930 miles from the mainland

A small cafe in the Azores provides a vital mail service for sailors crossing the Atlantic ocean.

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What's it like to queue on top of Everest?

Tim Mosedale believes queues are often not the reason people die whilst climbing.

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The tiny German island with a population of 16

During the winter, islanders must cope with extreme weekly floods.

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Is this Spain's scariest walkway?

The King's Path is a unique walkway in Spain but not one to attempt if you are scared of heights.

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