1Skarð
A village named Skarð on the Faroe Islands was abandoned in 1913 when the entire male population of the village perished in a fishing accident.
2Miami Shores
In 2013, the village of Miami Shores forced a married couple to either stop growing vegetables or pay $50 per day. They justified their decision by saying vegetables are “ugly.”
3Carancas impact event
In 2007, a meteor crashed into the ground near the village of Carancas, Peru. 100-200 people who got near the crash site fell ill, and there were reports of livestock dying in the area. The cause of this was determined to be arsenic poisoning.
4Ugley
The Essex village of Ugley is one of the many places in the United Kingdom with amusing or strange names. The village's branch of a long established women's organization used to be called the Ugley Women's Institute but changed its name after many years of jibes.
5Unique village
There is a small village tucked away in the tiny Himalayan Kingdom 'Bhutan' where houses have paintings of penises on the outside walls. A temple dedicated to a Buddhist mad monk known as 'Chimi Lakhang' exists in the village where thousands of devotees are given blessings with a wooden penis.
6Sweden Hills
There is a village named Sweden Hills, in Tobetsu town, Ishikari subprefecture of Hokkaido Japan. Local residents completely adopted Dalarna Sweden’s tradition of wooden houses painted in Falu Red, celebrating the MidSummer Festival and organizing ‘Kraftskiva’ crayfish party.
7Naukan
Naukan is a deserted Yupik village in Russia. It was once the easternmost settlement in the Eurasian continent. The eviction of the 400 indigenous inhabitants took place in 1954 with the objective of a possible military confrontation with the United States.
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8Imber
The village of Imber in England was taken over by the Ministry of Defence for Americans to practice street fighting before the allied invasion of Europe in 1944. The occupants were never allowed to return. You can visit Imber once a year where you can attend a service at the 13th century church.
9Polonezkoy
A Polish village named Polonezkoy, in Istanbul, was founded by a Polish prince back in the 1800s and now has over 100 Poles, and its name "Polonezköy" means "Village of the Poles". Today’s Polonezkoy is one of the most preferred places in Istanbul to choose from an exciting weekend breaks, day trips.
10Vale de Salgueiro
The Portuguese village of Vale de Salgueiro features a tradition that, each year, causes an outcry among outsiders — parents encouraging their children, some as young as five, to smoke cigarettes.
