The Faroes is the land that time forgot and people there are so far out of touch they are fair looking forward to the seventies.

BBC: Scotland's lowest ebb

This is the land that time forgot.

MSN: Scenes of sorrow in the Lower Ninth

Unlike the busy cities along the Trans-Siberian, which have undergone rapid change over the last few years due to increased train traffic and an influx of foreign travellers, the towns along the BAM remain part of the land that time forgot, their Soviet architecture virtually unchanged.

BBC: A train to nowhere in Siberia