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I visited NYC for less than a week.
Des Moines , Iowa.
For Canada it's probably Sherbrooke or ~~jonvive~~ Jonquière.
Bonus game: name the linking theme and specific things that link those places. Hint: it's not french things.
EDIT: Famous metal bands come from there. Slipknot from Des Moines, Gorguts from Sherbrooke, Voivod from Jonquiere
Silent Hill
The place that is modeled after is a real place called Centralia in Pennsylvania. It's a town largely knocked down due to unstable grounds due to the coal fire that has been going on underground for years. Because of this toxic gasses and smoke bellow out of people's basements and house foundations. There are several venting pipes as well. If I recall there is maybe a dozen hold out residents left in the town and possibly a handful of vampires or something. I got bored watching a documentary about it.
Jackman, Maine. Went once, not a very interesting place, about 1000 people there, in the middle of fucking nowhere
Considering it's most notable feature is being on the border I'd say it's closer to the edge of fucking nowhere.
Joshua Tree
I thought that one is a national park?
i've been to the USA once so this might not count... but i think i knew "Salem" before visiting the US (but did not visit Salem though) so it might as well count.
However very long after knowing Salem exists i saw a documentation about something in the area that possibly caused halluzinations in the peoples minds, the documentation suggested this was a likely cause for the cities history, but those effects were why i knew about Salem in the first place. i don't remember what it was, think some plant, but don't remember exactly.
however this is the smallest city i could name in the reagion you asked for.
well, but: I don't see a geopolitical isolation there, they even want to build walls to start isolating themselves. and i don't see anything unique in that situation either. newzealand, iceland, madagasca just to name a few are more isolated geopolitically and much more unique in so many ways too.
could you help me to see the geopolicically isolation and uniqueness you are talking about?
Alabama
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Interesting
Easy, Uvalde. Has only ~15k