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A pair of curious rhesus macaques inspect a discarded plastic bottle outside the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
KAYAKÖY, ANATOLIA, TURKEY When the Greco-Turkish war ended in 1923, roughly a million Greeks living in Turkey were repatriated, and Kayaköy, a Greek village of roughly 2,000 residents in western Turkey, was abandoned. The remains of the village—including hundreds of ruined homes and two Greek Orthodox churches—are preserved as a historic site. Travel tip: Fethiye, nearly three miles north of Kayaköy, is the closest town.
BODIE, CALIFORNIA In 1879, Bodie was a bustling gold-mining town and home to 8,500 residents known for gunfighting and brawling. Within a decade, the mines had been largely depleted and the population had begun a steady decline that ended in total abandonment. The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them. Travel tip: Bodie is a California Historic State Park, seven miles south of the town of Bridgeport.
Intended as elaborate houses for the afterlife, the tombs of the Myra necropolis were carved by the Lycians, an ancient people influenced by both Greece and the Near East thousands of years ago.