Felicity, California
Felicity, California: Center of the World
Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Felicity, California
Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.
Los Angeles, California
Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.
Las Palmas, Peru
A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.
Olney, Illinois
The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.
Barranquilla, Colombia
Explore the rich history of Colombia's Indigenous peoples.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Provincia de Dos de Mayo, Peru
This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.
Ushuaia, Argentina
The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Gimli, Manitoba
Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Pittsburg, New Hampshire
An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.
Önneköp, Sweden
This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Laadla, Estonia
A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.
Croatia
A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.
Kopačevo, Croatia
A small self-proclaimed micro-state located on a piece of disputed territory between Croatia and Serbia, near Liberland.
Wendover, Utah
A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.
Dayton, Nevada
The smallest country in the world.
Rough and Ready, California
The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.