Every city around the world has its own culture and uniqueness. Usually these two things become an attraction for tourists to visit a country that has culture, uniqueness, and even oddities that they had never thought of before.
Curious about what strange cities exist in the world? Summarized from various sources, let's find out below!
Coober Pedy, Australia
This small town in Australia has about 3,500 residents of which half live underground. Since its founding 100 years ago, when a teenager discovered opal gemstones there, the city has become a center for opal mining. It is estimated that 70 percent of the opal that has been produced, comes from this city, thus earning the nickname or title of Opal Capital of The World.
As a result of being the zero point of mining for opal gemstones, the temperature of the city of Coober Pedy became so hot that some of its residents lived underground. This is what makes this city unique and unique. The temperature in this city can reach 100 Fahrenheit in the shade and because of that, the majority of its citizens live underground because it has a cool temperature. Not only residences, there are underground hotels, restaurants, churches, and others.
Nagoro, Japan
The city is home to 35 humans or home to 350 dolls. According to Map Quest, 64-year-old artist Ayano Tsukimi suddenly has the idea of making human-sized dolls when the village's population begins to shrink. Aiming to reduce the feeling of loneliness, he also created the doll in which the doll represents each individual according to the work he has been involved in.
If you're curious about what this city looks like, you can watch the documentary “The Valley of Dolls” which covers the world of Tsukimi, covers the time and art used to make the doll figures, and explains her motivations.
Longyearbyen, Norway
What if the place you live in forbids you to die? It's weird, isn't it? But not for this one city. The death of a person is not allowed in this remote city. Launching from CNBC Indonesia, actually humans in this city can die but their bodies cannot be buried in that city.
It has been almost 100 years that no bodies have been buried in this city. This is because Longyearbyen has a cold arctic climate all year round. The temperature is too cold so that the corpse cannot decompose.
Not only that, the residents of this city are also used to living side by side with polar bears and reindeer.
Colma, United States
Next there is the city of Colma which is one of the strangest cities because it accommodates the highest number of deaths. It even got the nickname of the city inhabited by corpses. The number of graves continued to increase as the government moved all graves from San Francisco to Colma.
Launching from CNBC Indonesia, this city was once only occupied by grave diggers, flower shop owners, and grave administrators. But around 1980, several people with various professions began to arrive and settle in this city.
Setenil de las Bodeges, Spain
A city in Spain, namely Setenil de las Bodeges became the next strange city because it was built on a large rock. The houses built on stone were originally inhabited by the Moors, the Arabs who once ruled Spain.
Although it sounds strange, this is what attracts tourists to visit the city. You can also enjoy the unique views of the rocks in this city. Because the rocks hang above your head, so when you look up you won't be looking directly at the sky. Although scary because the stone can fall and be dangerous, but you don't need to worry, because this stone has survived for centuries.