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Our Favorite New Places This Week
Each week, we highlight a selection of extraordinary new places submitted by you—our Atlas Obscura community of curious travelers. Where will you go next? Óshlíð On Iceland's northwestern shoreline, along the Westfjords peninsula, are the villages of Hnífsdalur (population 210) and Bolungarvik (population 1,022). For many years, the only route between the two was this winding road at the bottom…
Vestiges of a mining community in the Yukon.