They became known as the cancer villages — tiny hamlets in Cappadocia, Turkey, that for generations have been haunted by an extremely rare lung condition. (scientificamerican.com)
In one train ride, a trip to Japan can go from chrome skyscrapers and neon lights, Harajuku fashion, and realistic robots to hot spring onsen, Shinto shrines, and tiny hamlets surrounded in rural beauty of mountains, lakes, and rivers. (ordinarytraveler.com)
At their edge lie tiny hamlets devoted to fossil mining. (bookbrowse.com)