Places ckoohle Wants to Go

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

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

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

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

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

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

A sinuous path among steep cliffs creates a stunning sight in southwestern Serbia.

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.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

A small village in two different countries.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

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.