Geography / Deliberately narrow
Cities with a history of questionable judgment
Five dossiers. Covering a handful of places properly beats covering everywhere badly.
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San Francisco
Hills, fog, Hitchcock, and the things under Market Street.9 listings · 1 dispatches
Los Angeles
Death, cinema, freeways, and an unreasonable number of cursed houses.8 listings · 0 dispatches
New Orleans
Above ground: brass bands. Below it: paperwork.7 listings · 0 dispatches
London
A city built on ghosts, tunnels and unpaid labour.9 listings · 1 dispatches
Maine in October
Cold coast, bad weather, old stories.7 listings · 1 dispatches
Rome
Three cities stacked on each other, and you can visit the lower two.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Istanbul
A city with a lake under it, built by an emperor who needed the water.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Bucharest
The country an author borrowed for a novel, doing its own version back.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Savannah
A grid of squares laid out in 1733, most of them built over something.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Salem
Twenty people executed on evidence that would not survive a moment's scrutiny.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Edinburgh
Closes and vaults under the Royal Mile, sealed and then reopened for visitors.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Prague
Alchemy, defenestration, and a clock that has been wrong on purpose since 1410.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Paris
Six million people are buried under the fourteenth arrondissement, tidily.0 listings · 0 dispatches
New York
Every square foot has been something worse before it was this.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Charleston
A port city that kept excellent records of things it would rather forget.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Chicago
Raised out of a swamp, burned down, and rebuilt taller out of spite.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Kraków
A salt mine with chapels in it, and an hour's drive you should think about first.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Mexico City
Built on a drained lake, sinking at a measurable rate, entirely unbothered.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Barcelona
Gothic quarter streets narrow enough that the sun only reaches them at noon.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Venice
An island that quarantined ships for forty days, and another it used for the bodies.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Boston
Burying grounds older than the country, in the middle of the financial district.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Dublin
A gaol built for reform, kept for two centuries, now open to the public.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Budapest
A hospital in a cave under the castle, kept as it was left.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Las Vegas
The desert around it is where the interesting things are buried.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Washington DC
A planned city with a great many rooms the plan does not mention.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Amsterdam
Canal houses with hooks at the top, for the things stairs could not take.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Lisbon
Rebuilt on a grid after 1755, because the old city was no longer there.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Vienna
The imperial family's hearts are in one church and the rest of them in another.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Berlin
More of the twentieth century happened here than anywhere, and most of it is still visible.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Tokyo
A city that rebuilt itself twice in one century and kept the shrines.0 listings · 0 dispatches
Athens
Ruins are not a district here. They are what the modern city was poured around.0 listings · 0 dispatches