Moyenne Island, Seychelles
Moyenne Island
A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.
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Moyenne Island, Seychelles
A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.
Luganville, Vanuatu
The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.
Nokhur, Turkmenistan
A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Rome, Italy
A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.
Vaals, Netherlands
A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.
United States / Canada
The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
France / Spain
This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.
Ishkashim, Afghanistan
A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.
Weirton, West Virginia
In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.
Pittsburg, New Hampshire
An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.
Fort Washington, Maryland
This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Hinsdale, New Hampshire
This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.
Marvão, Portugal
An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.
Valga, Estonia
For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.
Les Rousses, Switzerland
Part of this hotel resides in Switzerland, the other in France, and the border splits the honeymoon suite.
Belgium
Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.
Hawthorne, Nevada
This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.
Erie, Michigan
This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.
Berlin, Germany
A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.
Rome, Italy
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.