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Entry № 001
Skara Brae
A Neolithic village of eight stone houses, buried in sand for four thousand years and uncovered in a single night by the storm of 1850 — older than Stonehenge, with the furniture still standing.
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Entry № 002
The Wadden Sea
The largest unbroken tidal flat on Earth, where twice a day the North Sea withdraws far enough to walk across its floor to an island.
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Entry № 003
Aogashima
Around 170 people living inside an active double caldera, cooking with volcanic steam, on an island the ferry usually cannot reach.
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Entry № 004
The Tablelands, Gros Morne
A slab of the Earth's mantle pushed to the surface and left in the open — orange, barren, and part of the evidence that proved plate tectonics.
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Entry № 005
Chiloé
Sixteen wooden churches raised without iron nails by island shipwrights, houses on stilts over the tide, and a ghost ship people still half-believe in.
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