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Atlas Obscura has quite a few tourist spots for your browsing pleasure.

How about a crater lake in Romania, a neolithic village in the UK or a Roman arena in gay Paree?

or for somewhere closer to home: visit a 2000 year old stone circle in Miami
was this an outpost of the ancient Mayans?

more HERE, with lots of photos.

and TeaAtTrianon has another suggestion: Visit Chernobyl.

As evidence that the effects of radiation are not as bad as critics contend, they cite how wildlife has staged a remarkable comeback in the area around Chernobyl. Audits in the past have shown that the 18-mile exclusion area or "dead zone" around the plant is now home to 66 different species of mammals, including wild boar, wolves, deer, beavers, foxes, lynx and thousands of elk. (Read entire article.)

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Good medical news of the day:

HIV pills help prevent folks from catching HIV.

Good news: will protect women, especially in Africa, whose HIV positive husbands won't use condoms and studies show condoms are not vry good in stopping the spread of HIV (perhaps a quality problem, or because of the heat deteriorates latx) as much as in the US.
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Open coalmining causes birth defects. Yeah, that, and the destruction of the habitat (which is a lot worse than regular mining's slag heap pollution) is why we opposed it in our area of Pennsylvania.

Ah, but big coal has another reason: The hillbillies interbreed too much. Except in most of these areas, a lot of coalminers are third generation Italian or Eastern European immigrants.

for example:

here's another tourist place for you to visit:


The West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival will celebrate its 33rd year over Labor Day Weekend, September 2, 3, 4, 2011. The American Bus Association has rated the WVIHF among the "Top 100 Events in North America" and has also been rated as the Southeast Tourism Society's Top 20 Events.

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