Strangest Places Where People ACTUALLY Live 

I was born, raised and live in Anchorage, Alaska and I've been to Whittier several times. It's mainly a tiny fishing town, but the beauty of the surrounding mountains, glaciers and the bay make it worth the drive from Anchorage. There is a gas station and a couple of cafe's & bars.. The whole city is not inside the one building, but most residents live in the one building.. lol.. also, Girdwood is closer since it's halfway between Whittier and Anchorage.

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It seems Cairo needs a few Wall-Es. Even if only to compact the sorted trash into manageable sizes.

The village i live in, a village called Degeberga in southern Sweden, isn't big compared to other villages, but it is big for a village in Sweden. There lives around 1,340 people there, me included. It's really a small town, and while there isn't much to do for us Gen Z, but we do have one grocery shop, one flower seller, one antiquety shop, a bakery, a park, two swimming pools, a few football fields and other sports ammenities, a fire brigade, a few motels, an apocethary, so we don't need to get to other bigger villages, towns and cities for medicins, and then there's a small outdoors petting zoo, with a few goats, ducks and geeze. There is also a nature reserve, with the biggest waterfall in the county where the village is located. Here's a fun fact for you. The sothern most county in Sweden, Skåne, or Scania, which also is a landscape, because we here in Sweden don't have states, regions, provinses or anything like that, but instead, the Swedish counterpart of all those are called landscapes, and some only have one or two counties, except for a few outliers, Scania and Lappland, the Swedish one, not the Finnish one, has more than that. Scania alone has nine counties, while it itself is a county and landscape. Small edit. There is also a nuclear bunker and a school, plus a few pizzarias, a thai food wagon, a small restaurant and fast food, a few day cares for kids, and the nuclear bunker lies under the school and library.

Justice for sealand

Love this darn channel!!!! I'm amazed at how he comes up with such great content each and every day.😊

I can see possibilities for "Sealand" - they could do hydroponic gardening, keep chickens...It could be a lot nicer than it is!😃

I live in Alaska and I love that you mentioned Whittier haha I don’t live in Whittier but I take the drive from Anchorage every once in a while because the drive is beautiful and the town is worth it, there’s not much but if you like fresh fish then Whittier, Homer and Seward are the vibes. Also you slaughtered the name Seward 😂😂

Be amazed uploads so many videos that are educational as well as entertaining. This channel is awesome for my kids.

I lived in Whittier. The OP forgot to mention that the other building used to be a mall. It caught on fire and was abandoned to never be rebuilt again due to it containing asbestos. The governor said it was too risky to tear down as it would release the asbestos. And there it stands as a landmark. But yes, it is haunted. I was in the theater in this building and it gave me the chills. Whittier is also a fish cannery town. Salmon and other fish are processed there. There is only one restaurant and fuel station. The snow gets up to 15 feet at times and when it snows you're stuck for a few months. The tunnel is closed. Princess cruise lines also stops there and though there is only one restaurant, there are a couple of eateries. Very expensive. There's also a frozen water fall, home to a huge glacier, and mining company. If you ever find yourself in AK, Whittier is well worth the time. It's quite beautiful and unique...

Absolutely fascinating video of such incredibly varied places from appallingly sad to outright Gorgeous 😊 I'd be so happy on that island with the beautiful puffins around me ❤ Adored your Be Amazed animation falling into the sea at 18:37 🌊❤😂 Loved the Australian cave homes too, imagine digging out a storage cupboard and accidentally finding an opal instead, perfect 💎 Great video, thank you 😊

I love watching your videos every day its so interesting and entertaining and i cant wait to see more

Mansheyet Naser is a huge problem in my country… it unfortunately is not the only place that live this way. Almost toooooo many people live under the line of poverty in Egypt. It’s such a sad situation. Unfortunately, nothing about that will change any goddamn time soon

Thank you very much for this extraordinary collection. It is fascinating. Ruth xx

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These are the best videos to listen to when I'm doing mundane things around the house. Thank you.

Hi @Be Amazed. When talking about SeaLand, the flag included is the Ugandan flag and not infact the SeaLand flag. The SeaLand flag completely looks different from the flag included, which has to be the Ugandan flag😭😭. Just a small mistake that I thought should be rectified.

Columbia county has made it a lot more difficult to get to Centralia, PA. They rerouted the main highway (RT 61) so if you don't know where Centralia is you will no longer be able to find it.

I gotta give a shout out to Be Amazed, it makes my day watching these educational videos.

As a person speaking English like an American but was born in Egypt, there is worse that dump cities, Way Worse, like Economic crisis and the burning summer, we are having an unlucky streak btw i was born in Al Maadi, Cairo

Speaking of running out of room for burials, Bill Bryson’s book At Home, a Short History of Private Life, describes looking out across the English countryside and seeing multiple church steeples in the distance all around, each representing an accompanying graveyard. His friend he was with asked him if he’d ever noticed how old churches seem to be sunk into the ground? His friend suggested it’s because of centuries of burials in the churchyard! And from the hilltop view they had, they were probably gazing out over thousands upon thousands of burials, just in the last 150 years alone, as each steeple represented a community’s below-ground population as well as the above, the one below-ground-number possibility being multiple times more. Sobering, but that’s . . . life.

Always worth to wait videos with your voice!!!

Just realized as you talked about flight risk and showed a diagram of a helicopter you had a Kobe gif in the bottom corner eerie coincidence

Wow these are some amazing living places! I like Coober petty the best! N Ty for explaining the loneliest house! It’s a screen saving on my cable tv and I always wondered what it was!

25:00 -- Your "old and stubborn" suggestion isn't far off. The 5 remaining residents of Centralia -- as well as a few others who've since passed on -- were a handful of holdouts who, out of some combination of pride, nostalgia, and stubbornness, refused to leave even when the government ordered them to. After years of battling, they eventually reached a settlement that allows them to remain in their homes on the condition that said homes can't be passed down to their heirs, but will revert to the government upon their deaths at which time they'll presumably be demolished.

Just 10 degrees Farenheit (-12 C) in the winter? As someone that often had to go to school in -20 C, this sounds pretty ridiculous.

Seward Highway - "SUE-WARD" is how to say it :) I'm from Kenai, Alaska! Love your videos - they always get me through the day!!

10:19 Me: brings all my electronics and my phone which has unlimited data and connect all my stuff to it

I literally love your videos

Well just setting in to Binge on some BeAmazed and this came in at the right time

24:47 The photo of Centralia was taken years after the narrated year (1962). Either that or the residents had a time machine to bring newer cars back.

I learn so much from your videos

Great video!

Love this!!!

This was one of my favorite videos!

AnotherBe amazed vid thats amazing❤

your videos are awesome i watch them eather on my tablet or on my dads computer 😃😃😃 you never fail to amaze me

Epic video as always 😍

The second word of Coober Pedy rhymes with needy, not with ready.

i believe as an australian coober pedy is pronounced “coober peedy” someone correct me if i’m wrong though

dude you always give me a laugh🤣...im always "being amazed"

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'21:15' 😅 Getting a nosebleed just looking at it 😂😂😂😂😂

I don't understand the whittier thing like in the winter we have to drive cars to school and it use some under ground tunnel and it can be 10 degrees aswell. It can also be 0 degrees or negative degrees! However we don't go to school on days it is 0 or less

i live every video you guys put out. keep up the good work. also guys we need to start putting together lore for the be amazed mascot

Love your videos, Be Amazed!!! One question... The Lonely house was built in 1953 but hunters left the island in 1930? Can you cross-check this or I missed something?

Didn't mention before it became sealand that platform was also home to a pirate radio station that played rock music that the uk government banned (i think there's a movie about that)

23:00 LOL THAT HIT ME LIKE A CAR 28:09 havent you made a video on this place before?

That painted road in Centralia has been covered over with tons of sand or dirt so that people won;t visit the road. Also, the underground fire in Centralia has burned further too. It now threatens another nearby town.

2:00 Trailblazer: "Could they be one of my people?"

Now that you mentioned shoebox apartments, 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' has Hong Kong (or the like) as an area and although the multi-people housing buildings are far more spacious than that, the individual "apartments" are even smaller than what you showed cuz they seem to be meant for sleeping only, and you'll go elsewhere otherwise. I kinda liked the looks of those apartments in the game but wouldn't live there.

Whittier, Alaska sounds fascinating. Only 214 people in such isolation. The questions just swirl. That building looks large, what is it divided like inside? How do people raise families there? How long does the average person live there? Is there a dating scene? What’s the average income? What’s the cost of living? Is there a wealth disparity? Do the kids go off to college? What is there to do there? Do the professionals go off to learn their trade then return? Do they have a veterinarian? How often do residents go on vacation and see other family? Do micro-trends there occur in terms of fashion, popular media, and slang? Sounds like an opportunity for an interesting semi-fictional novel. So much opportunity for unusual and compelling stories. But it sounds like super dangerous to live or even visit. Hospital or not, for anything serious, surely you’re being sent to Anchorage by LifeFlight? What is their industry? I’ve got to look more into this place. It seems worse off than Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the farthest Nothern settlement in the world. There are at least something like 2,000 people there. But speaking of the population, nobody should give birth there, in case of complications, and they move to the mainland several weeks from their due date just in case. It being an American town makes it culturally so accessible to me, but in every other way possible, extremely remote.

Maybe in part two you could feature the solom islands

Humans: anywhere we go? we live there.

With those Shoebox apartments, the tenants should save up and buy a small car-- they would triple their living space (unless insurance and gas are too expensive). The owners of those apartments win the award for slumlord of the universe.

Whittier, Alaska can get down to 10 degrees F, so they build a tunnel so the kids can safely go to school. Dude! Here in southwestern Wyoming this last winter, we had a high of -15 (low of -19) degrees F!! No tunnels for us. I think it was something like -30 or more in northern parts of Wyoming. Yeah, "global warming" wasn't happening here last winter.

I'd always thought "Valkenvania" (from Nothing But Trouble) seemed a little familiar when they started talking about Centralia a lot....

Can you do a video about weirdest phobias

Coober Pedy sounds like the best place to live during the apocalypse

I lived in anchorage and Whittier is amazing they have lots of cafes camping and convenience stores. We traveled there a few times when it was 10 F which is nothing btw we have been in -28 F for hours at a time mostly for an amazing ice sculpture showing I went on this amazing ice slide it was awesome I went faster than any other slide ever. Anyway the drive isn’t that bad and they don’t all live in one building although most do but the sights are amazing! Also Seward isn’t pronounced sea-ward it’s sew-ard say it right please. Last thing Whittier is awesome and the drive through the tunnel is surreal your in there for around 20-30 minutes and when you get out the lil town is awesome if you go try their cafes they are amazing!

Sealand makes the symphony of the seas a floating country

Some of those places are incredible

I have been to Whitteir and it is truely strange.

Can't help but wonder if that temple was one of the inspirations for Skyrim. I mean, you've got the eight/ten thousand steps leading up to a temple on a high mountaintop that's sacred to the monks that live there, sounds pretty close to me

I am always astounded by the beauty and craftsmanship that went into buildings before there were power tools and any other modern ways of building. Modern building has nothing to do with craftsmanship or pride of creating something that will last for centuries. Modern building is get a box shape. Put the ugliest shape and colour you can imagine. Don't cover the concrete, the cement block walls, or any ducts that are necessary for the running of the utilities. They then class these as modern architectural bland boxes as extremely interesting pieces of engineering. Sadly our children and grandchildren won't see the interesting and beauty of historical buildings that we can now. Some of the living conditions in this video are really heart wrenching. How can somewhere as Modern as Tokyo claim that the people who are living on top of each other, literally, are housed .? It's a very interesting way to see how some people live.

Why are you using Ugandan flag as the sea land flag 😢 ( just curious) because coz I am Ugandan and excited to see my country mentioned for people to be amazed about it❤❤🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

I once was in a hotel in Barueri, São Paulo (brazil, the country i live in), and the light went out because of a strong wind, so because my family chose high floors, i had to go up 22 floors in the stairs

0:19 what do use the bottle for

The temple hanging off the mountain is like Yemeni houses.

7:20 "can reach temperatures up to 113 F" *me seeing this in Arizona* "I wish that was it"

Cooper Pedy is pronounced peedy 😱 luv watching your videos 👍❤️

I’ve been to Centralia. Here’s why so few houses remain. The underground mine fires there and eminent domain. Only a handful of people still call Centralia home. When their lives end, their homes will NOT go to their next of kin. They’ll be demolished on eminent domain.

6:01 I think the Pedy in Coober Pedy is pronounced like Petey. I don’t know if it’s the accent, but when a native Aussie says Coober it sounds more like Cuba.

Strangest thing brings a lot of thing for people to discover

That singular square house in the middle of nowhere is my house in every survival crafting game ever.

for the sea land i subscribed 🤪

Would love to visit Sea Land.

Me and my family went on a cruise to Alaska and we actually drove through that tunnel and saw that building in wittier!

How could anyone hurt a puffin?! Just look at them!

just realized that loneliest house island was the inspiration for luke's hermit island in 'the last jedi,' even down to the puffins

When I was growing up, for eight years I lived across the street from an acre of grass. Basically, it was a green area. So I well know how big an acre is

Idk, we here in Ohio get into the low 90’s in summer and regularly in the 20’s, teens, and single digits in winter, 30’s is just kinda normal. We still live above ground.

He said -12C was so cold the child stayed in door. Hahaha, that is a normal winter day for Canadnavia.

Sealand was in international waters for a time, but the jurisdiction lines for other countries were drawn and it's now within the UK territory. Not to say it can't be it's own nation. Let them have their fun, I say. Who is it hurting? They had their own football team. Defunct, but they plan to revive it.

Who could kill a Puffin? Not me. They're so adorable. ❤

Thinking a couple of these inspired a couple of fictional places, the one with the constantly burning coal just smacks of Silent Hill and that last one just looks like the Western Air Temple from Avatar: the Last Airbender.

Everybody comment what your favorite thing about be amazed is

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"and a bottle." OH HELL NAW THAT'S YOUR TOILET?!

underground cities actually make more sense as our technology improves, our population grows and the climate worsens. Imagine all of that space used by cities becoming forested parks, Cement absorbs heat, we are basically helping heat the planet by having any cement showing above ground. It also means more area for field crops or mostly natural environments and that is without getting into moving away from field farming when possible since it is much less efficient then robotic greenhouses and gathering our methane output for electrical production, carbon dioxide for carbon capture or that it would be easier to temperature control since there would be less surface area in contact with the environment.

Be amazed thank you very much and I appreciate I can see my flag of Uganda because I grew up from Uganda but I am an Arab thank you bro and blessing🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

I started using computers in 1982 while in the life insurance business. Hand held Panasonic with heat activated printer. I had to change large chips out for different products. We did rollovers from whole life to Universal Life. Intrest sensitive cash value insurance. We did this to keep unlicensed agents from A. L. Williams that acted in an unethical manner and ignored fiduciary responsibility. I had clients that wanted me there when the Williams " agents" tell them that we were crooks. I'd take a portable cassette recorder with me. Even if they had a licensed agent with them, none ever had a securities license! Anytime that I turned on the tape player, they didn't say anything!

Home is where your heart is.

Ah, Centralia. The inspiration, at least partially, for Silent Hill.

8:19 lonely island

Very entertaining video however, the use of Kobe Bryant’s gif at 27:10 followed by the display of the helicopter when explaining the flight risk caused by the manholes air movement was NOT COOL. My family and I were actually shocked by the choice… 😔

The flag used for the Principality of Sealand shown is actually the flag of Uganda, an african country.

Can you continue the Darwin Awards AKA Most dumbest ways to die?

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Bro I literally have my own country called the archduchy of Seereich that is a bit smaller than sealand 😂