Russia
Diomede Islands
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
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Russia
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
Diomede, Alaska
Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.
Walferdange, Luxembourg
This cryptic monument honors a mysterious dead woman, despite her identity being lost centuries ago.
Vancouver, British Columbia
The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.
Elko, Nevada
The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.
Wells, Nevada
An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.
Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.
Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany
A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.
Durham, North Carolina
This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Baker, Nevada
This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.
Burlington, Vermont
This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.
Elizabeth Bay, Namibia
The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.
Hyder, Alaska
The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.
Frisco, Utah
Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.
Budapest, Hungary
The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.
Ordino, Andorra
Some of the smallest works of art in existence.
Mali, Guinea
This small building is a living testament to the remoteness and warmth of the town that it represents.
Poni, Burkina Faso
These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.