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Cities that break all the rules
Embark on a global journey to explore the world's most bizarre towns, where residents live underground, borders slice through living rooms, and unique laws challenge how we define a city.
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by schopenhauer · Sep 25, 2026
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Chapter 1
Life inside a single building and deep underground
1Whittier and the single-tower town
2Coober Pedy and the subterranean lifestyle
3Setenil de las Bodegas and the overhanging cliffs
4Kandovan and the volcanic fairy chimneys
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Chapter 2
The strange towns split by international borders
1Baarle and the border jigsaw puzzle
2Buesingen and Germany's Swiss island
3Derby Line and the border library
4Damanhur and the secret underground federation
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Chapter 3
Cities built for the departed and the spiritual
1Colma and the city of souls
2Fengdu and the gateway to the underworld
3Hallstatt and the bone house of necessity
4The City of the Dead and its living neighborhoods
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Chapter 4
Cities with the world's most extreme rules
1Longyearbyen and the ban on death
2Giethoorn and the roadless paradise
3Centralia and the eternal underground fire
4Monowi and the town of one
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