An Appalachian dream that conjured the spirit of the old west,left to rot on a North Carolina mountainside; in the ex-Sovietrepublic of Georgia are the remains of an ingenious sky-highsolution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once known asthe Venice of the air; Guernsey Hospital was a vast complexbuilt when a slice of Britain lived under the Nazi yoke; andHoutouwan , a Chinese island of simple means, caught up in abrutal revolution that ushered in a tragic period of massincarceration and murder.
