11Nutbush City Limits
The real-life area of Nutbush, Tennessee, which was mentioned in Tina Turner’s song “Nutbush City Limits”, is an unincorporated community. It has no official boundaries and therefore there are no Nutbush city limits.
12Seneca Village
Seneca Village was a small community that was composed mostly of free black people. It was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City’s Central Park.
13Tangier Island
Tangier Island is a small island community in the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, where people speak with a unique dialect resembling British English. Due to rising sea levels, however, the island is expected to be lost in the next 50 years.
14Supai Village
There are people who live inside the Grand Canyon. Supai Village, the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, boasts a population of a couple of hundred residents. It is considered the most remote community in the continental US, and therefore is the only place where mail is delivered and carried by mule.
15Gas Plant Neighborhood
Tropicana Field in Florida was once home to a thriving African-American community known as the Gas Plant neighborhood from the late 1800s until 1986.
16Turks of South Carolina
The Turks of South Carolina is a community that traces its lineage back to Joseph Benenhaley, or Yusef Ben Ali, an Ottoman Turk refugee who fought in the American Revolutionary War, and whose members were discriminated against as "second-class citizens" in the segregated South.
17Ubang Community
Ubang is a village in Nigeria where men and women speak different languages. This small farming community views this unique difference as “a blessing from God.”
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18The Villages
The Villages is an over-55 community that has the highest consumption of draft beer and STD rate in the state of Florida.
19Guevedoces
Guevedoces is a term used in a small community in the Dominican Republic for some children who are genetically males but are born with a vagina instead of a penis. Miraculously though at puberty, the vagina automatically fuses into a fully-functioning penis and scrotum.
20Saadat Shahr
Saadat Shahr is a small rural community in Iran that has been nicknamed ‘Astronomy Town’ because of its residents’ passion for stargazing. The town clubbed together to pay for an observatory and on special occasions, all the lights of the town are cut to improve the view of the night sky.
