One or two might slip by

while the rest of us stay exactly where we were left.

In 2005, a group of friends reportedly got lost in an "empty city" while traveling Europe. Their train to Prague made an unexpected stop, and they got off in a nameless town.

Buildings were solid, windowless. "There was a crowd, but no people in it. They moved like clockwork."

Empty cars drove in synchrony, without traffic lights. Streets had no names. Billboard ads showed impossible items. One of them would describe the place as "the idea of a city."