The most extraordinary company town of all, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was the creation of the government, rather than the private sector.
Toni Morrison's new novel traces the history of two extraordinary communities, a town of intransigents and a house of outcasts.
So let's celebrate brazen buddleia – share your pictures of the butterfly bush growing in the most extraordinary places around town by adding them to our Flickr group and we'll add a selection to our picture gallery.
The visual impact of Pitigliano is remarkable; from a distance it seems extraordinary that the town has survived so long.
In Schmalkalden, an extraordinary, half-timbered town, a kind lady turns around in her path in the snow and leads us to what she promises us, with honesty, is 'the second-best restaurant in Schmalkalden' – a Ratskeller (basement bar or restaurant) of antique, unbudging commitment to various combinations of pork, beer and sentimental porcelain statuettes of ladies in ballgowns.
At the same time an extraordinary out-of-town show, "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Art" at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, brought comparable breadth to an even less-charted reality, that of an African European culture that the textbooks, until now, have left out.
That says a lot about the town's extraordinary isolation.
Greenwich is a town of extraordinary beauty; a town that functions smoothly and safely; a town where all economic classes are represented, but where the wealthy are (especially nowadays, as in the 1920's) gaudily conspicuous.
The mountains surrounding the town are extraordinary — rolling fertile fields punctuated by mountaintop fortress towns that look as though they're still ready to resist a years-long siege.
The nonprofit clinic, the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, widely known as CARD, has been a sanctuary here for hundreds of sick and dying people as this former mining town's extraordinary battle with asbestos unfolded over the last six years.
