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The sign of the village of Westward Ho!, 2007.
Westward Ho!, England

Westward Ho!

How did this lovely seaside English village come by such an unusual name?
A new house in Kongthong.
music

The Indian Village Where Every Person's Name Is a Unique Song

Hear the tunes that Kongthong residents are given at birth.
Zinara Rathnayake April 24, 2020
Yufuin Floral Village
Yufu, Japan

Yufuin Floral Village

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.
Borgata Maison Abandon Village
Noasca, Italy

Borgata Maison

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.
Revelers in Ottana walk through the ruins of the town's old center.
festivals

Sardinian Carnevale Has No Place for Beads or Glitter

Instead it has animal skins, cowbells, bullwhips, and frightened children.
Winnie Lee March 9, 2020
Drvengrad.
Mokra Gora, Serbia

Drvengrad

An idyllic traditional timber village on a picturesque hill was built for a film.
A graffitied former home beside the lake.
abandoned

How to Make Sense of an Undrowned Town

Residents of Celles in France were evicted so their village could be flooded. Then, it wasn't.
Sam Harrison January 20, 2020
A Celles ruin.
Celles, France

Celles

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.
View of the inside of the library
Yusuhara, Japan

Yusuhara Town Library

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.
Video

Why There's an 'Italian' Village in Wales

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East Haddam, Connecticut

Johnsonville Village

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.
Jaman Mural Village
Jeonju-si, South Korea

Jaman Mural Village

Throughout this South Korean village, homes and businesses are covered in fantastic handpainted murals.
Now part of Bear Mountain State Park, the abandoned hamlet has zero (living) residents but three cemeteries.
cemeteries

In This New York Ghost Town, the Graveyards Keep Growing

Doodletown was shuttered by the state in 1965. That hasn't stopped Doodletowners from burying their dead there.
Shane Cashman October 31, 2019
Semenkovo, Russia

Vologda Butter Museum

Slather on the history at an exhibition dedicated to this Russian luxury.
It takes 20 sheep to make 2.2 pounds of Torta del Casar.
Casar de Cáceres, Spain

Museo del Queso

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.
An archway in Val'Quirico, its look was inspired by Tuscan architecture and the hacienda's original buildings .
Nativitas, Mexico

Ex Hacienda de Santa Águeda

The grounds of this former dairy hacienda now contain an entire town inspired by Tuscany, Italy.
Still the same.
Los Albaricoques, Spain

Los Albaricoques

This small Spanish village still pays homage to the Spaghetti Western films that were shot there in the 1960s.
Grates Cove Rock Walls.
Grates Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador

Walled Landscape of Grates Cove

The stone barriers in this historic fishing village were once used for farming and gardening.