How to explore like a real Victorian adventurer from The believer / Monte Reel --
The telltale scribes of Timbuktu from National geographic / Peter Gwin --
Chernobyl, my primeval, teeming, irradiated Eden from Outside / Henry Shukman --
Garbage city from VQR / Elliott D. Woods --
My days with the anti-Mafia from The Missouri revew / Thomas Swick --
City of walls from The American scholar / Robin Kirk --
Now ye know who the bosses are here now from McSweeney's / J. Malcolm Garcia --
The wicked coast from The Atlantic / Paul Theroux --
Letter from Paris from The Houston review / Michael Gorra --
The reckoning from The New York times magazine / Kenan Trebincevic --
The Tijuana Sports Hall of Fame from Grantland / Bryan Curtis --
Holy city of the Wichitas from Ecotone / Kimberly Meyer --
Momento mori from The believer / Dimiter Kenarov --
Maximum India from Condé nast traveler / Pico Iyer --
Keeping watch from Harper's magazine / Lynn Freed --
Walking the border from Esquire / Luke Dittrich --
Amundsen schlepped here from Outside ; Conquering an infinite cave from National geographic by Mark Jenkins --
Railroad semantics from Railroad semantics / Aaron Dactyl.