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Little Weesy Coppin, the Ghost That Foretold the Franklin Expedition’s Fate

An 1847 illustration of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus during an earlier Arctic expedition, by James Wilson Carmichael.

Little Weesy Coppin, the Ghost That Foretold the Franklin Expedition’s Fate

10 Legendary (and Probably Made-Up) Islands

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10 Legendary (and Probably Made-Up) Islands

Disney Has a Pair of Abandoned Properties

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Disney Has a Pair of Abandoned Properties

The Town Built On Asbestos (Population: 3)

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The Town Built On Asbestos (Population: 3)

The Deadly Train Crash That Started a Trend

Texas Co-op Power

Strange Geographies: Portugal's Bone Chapel

Strange Geographies: The Fjords of New Zealand

Vacation to Mars: Antarctica's Dry Valleys

Mike White

SOLD! The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia

Ransom Riggs

Scenes from Vanuatu, the Happiest Place on Earth

Beautiful, Alien Iceland

Strange Geographies: A Most Peculiar Trip

Strange Geographies: The Accidental Sea

Strange Geographies: Abandoned Belgium (and Luxembourg), Part II

Strange Geographies: Abandoned Belgium, Part I

Strange Geographies: Quick Facts About the Netherlands