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In Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, evidence has been found of mummies that pre-date the Egyptians' by 2,000 years (Credit: Sergio Donoso/EyeEm/Getty Images)
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A South American town built on the dead

By Juan Francisco Riumalló

The 495m-high Lion Rock is topped by a huge granite outcrop that resembles a crouching lion (Credit: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy)
Why We Are What We Are
The giant rock that defines Hong Kong
By Gary Jones
With only 10% of Florence's tourist numbers and a third of Pisa's, Livorno is mostly ignored by visitors (Credit: Solveig Steinhardt)
Culture & Identity
Italy's beloved 'ugly' city
By Solveig Steinhardt
At Ona Pilota in Bidet, world jai alaï champions Patxi and Jon Tambourindeguy make custom-designed chisteras and hand-crafted pilotas (Credit: Sylvia Sabes)
Culture & Identity
The fastest ball games on record?
By Sylvia Sabes
With a population of only about 3,000, the Digueois pride themselves on using the bicycle as their main form of transport (Credit: Anders Blomqvist/Getty Images)
Discovery
The island banning private vehicles
By Alba Jaramillo
The city of Victoria (Credit: seychelles view/Alamy Stock Photo)
Culture & Identity
One of the world's smallest capitals
By Anthony Ham
(Credit: Zinara Rathnayake)
Our Unique World
Sri Lanka's last indigenous people
By Zinara Rathnayake
Chiara Lee Taiarol founded El Cocal as space for women to learn about and work with glass (Credit: Massimo Pistor/El Cocal Glass Studio)
Why We Rule
The inventive women changing Venice
By Marianna Cerini
Hundreds of traditional healers in Ecuador provide spiritual cleansings (Credit: Vince Harris/Alamy)
Well World
The healers who treat 'bad luck'
By Heide Brandes
A woman wearing yellow feather leis (Credit: Photo Resource Hawaii/Alamy Stock Photo)
Culture & Identity
Hawaii's ultimate form of gratitude
By Erinne Magee
(Credit: Zoey Goto)
Culture & Identity
The last ship of the US slave trade
By Zoey Goto
A new "XXXL Chichi" includes illustrations of Curaçao's most beautiful attractions (Credit: Serena Israel)
Culture & Identity
The island breaking beauty standards
By Sarah Harvey
Colorful buildings align right looking left at the San Juan river
Culture & Identity
The rebirth of Cuba's abandoned city
By Brendan Sainsbury
(Credit: Richard Collett)
Places That Don't Belong
The Spanish town lost in France
By Richard Collett
Young woman walking down Myeongdong street market in Seoul, South Korea
Lost in Translation
The one question all Koreans ask
By Vivian Song
Occupied since the Iron Age, As-Salt became a thriving trade centre
Culture & Identity
A world heritage city of tolerance
By Marta Vidal