Geographic Oddities

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

The most disputed archipelago in the world.