Lesser-known towns, villages and regional hubs outside the major capitals. 17 so far.
A French colonial river town under the Elephant Mountains, famous for pepper, salt pans and a slow riverfront that Cambodia's beach crowds pass by.
A small town in a valley of red rock spires and canyons in southern Bolivia, where Butch Cassidy's last robbery took place and horses are still the way to see the country.
A silver town at 2,750 m reached through a single-lane tunnel, half ruined since the 1900s and now home to a few hundred people, Huichol pilgrims and a lot of silence.
An Edo-period post town on the Nakasendō highway, preserved in 1968 by residents who agreed never to sell, rent or demolish, and best seen on the 8 km trail from Magome.
A hamlet of turf-roofed farmhouses on the Faroes' southern shore, once the islands' medieval capital, with a roofless 13th-century cathedral and a farm inhabited by the same family since 1550.