I traded life on a bus to live on a remote island in Alaska. The unpredictable weather and delays in getting household goods surprised me the most.

Imagine living somewhere so isolated that the nearest other people are over 1,500 miles away across open ocean, that there’s no airport, and that reaching the outside world means a six-day voyage by ...

Governments and private island owners have started offering serious money to bring people into places most travelers only see in photos. In Ireland alone, remote offshore communities have struggled ...