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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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Australia's Lord Howe Island

Saving an Australian paradise's cloud forest

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

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Chamois

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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Could you handle the most remote campsite on earth?

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 end of the world

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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Austrailian outback pub

'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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Great Blasket Island, off the coast of Ireland

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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This is the journey the villagers had to make to get home

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

We went hunting for trolls and found a deeper truth

What we found was the truth behind the myths.

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The Arctic town open to everyone

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

The world's northernmost town is open to all.

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Riders of the storm

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

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Kyrgyzstan's remote village that moves into the forest every year

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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Okunevo village

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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Epecuen

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 in the mid-Atlantic

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 small German island with a population of 16

The tiny German island with a population of 16

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

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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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