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The Doobie Underground

In Italy, grassroots cannabis social clubs dispense medical marijuana (and sometimes cheese) to ailing patients.

The Last Days of Storytellers Street

Long past its glory days and plagued by spasms of violence, Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazaar is at risk of being lost to history.

A Railway Pilgrimage in Pakistan

As a child growing up in Pakistan, the railway held a special place in Annie Khan’s imagination—even though she never actually rode a train. Last year, she returned to Karachi and boarded the country’s most famous (if slightly beleaguered) line, the Khyber Mail.

Brooklyn’s Ayahuasca Guru

The borough’s go-to man for the hallucinogenic potion is a ponytailed 33-year-old former Orthodox Jew. Go figure.

The Fat Man’s Belly

Hainan Island—best known for pirates, poets, and Miss World pageants—is now an unlikely player in China’s quest for supremacy in Southeast Asia.

The Fishing Otters of Bangladesh

For two centuries fishermen in Bangladesh have relied on the whiskered river dwellers. Today, the practice is at risk of fading away.

Australia’s Brothel Boomtown

As the country’s mining industry booms, so does the sex trade. Journalist Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore spends a night in a flourishing Perth brothel.

Brother’s Keeper

Participants in street soccer’s Homeless World Cup may not resemble the hair gelled superstars that played in Brazil last summer. But as Martin Fritz Huber discovered on the sidelines in Santiago, no home doesn’t equal no talent.

The Holy Bones of Pittsburgh

In a nondescript chapel in a blue collar neighborhood rests the largest collection of relics outside the Vatican.