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The Veryovkina Cave is the deepest known cave on Earth. It took half a century and about 30 expeditions for ...

Year after year, the tropical island nation of Vanuatu has kept its ranking as one of the happiest places on ...

Coober Pedy is at the centre of Australia's opal mining industry. Now the town, where 60% of its residents live ...

A local priest was murdered during the Spanish Civil War. A portrait turned him into an icon. Decades later, a ...

The pirate Anne Bonny terrorised the Caribbean in the 18th Century. Her extraordinary life inspired many legends and myths. Video ...

Stromboli is the most remote of Italy’s seven Aeolian Islands. This summer, two major explosions shook the island, killing an ...

Puolanka, a small town in the centre of Finland, had become famous for its particular brand of pessimism. Recurring themes ...

Okinawa, long known as the island of the immortals, is home to the highest concentration of centenarians in Japan. The ...

Longyearbyen is the northernmost city in the world. It is also a visa-free zone where everyone is welcome to live ...

On a September night in 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov stood guard at a satellite-based missile launch detection system. ...