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The Atlantic paid a visit to Chiatura, Georgia—that's the country, not the state—to see the legendary "rope roads," a series of Stalinist-era tramways that connect the town's many hilltop hamlets. Some of the 17 remaining trams are owned by a mining company, but haven't been improved or thoroughly repaired in decades. [The Atlantic]