Crossing Borders

Places that exist between other places.

35 Places

United States / Canada

United States–Canada Border Slash

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

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Point Roberts, Washington

Point Roberts

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

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Haskell Free Library and Opera House

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Added by renkessler

Zavikon Island, Ontario

Zavikon Island

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

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Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn-Flatbush Border Line

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

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New York, New York

Marble Hill

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

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Delmar, Maryland

Transpeninsular Midpoint Marker

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

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Added by WhiskeyBristles

Bristol, Virginia

State Street

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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South West City, Missouri

AR-MO-OK Tri-State Marker

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

Added by gradec

Carthage, Texas

Last Remaining Boundary Marker for the Republic of Texas

The only international border marker within the United States.

Added by bcarusella

San Jon, New Mexico

Glenrio Ghost Town

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Added by catboom

Teec Nos Pos, Utah

Four Corners Monument

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

Added by mightyquinn

Portland, Oregon

Willamette Stone Heritage Park

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

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Baarle-Hertog, Belgium

Borders of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Baarle-Hertog, Belgium

The House with Two Numbers

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

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Baarle-Hertog, Belgium

The Migrating House

Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.

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Vennbahn Cycleway

Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.

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Knighton, England

Offa's Dyke

Britain’s longest ancient monument, this great 8th century earthwork was built to mark the boundary between what would become England and Wales.

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Llanymynech, England

Llanymynech

A small village in two different countries.

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Added by Capemarsh

Marvão, Portugal

Porto Roque Border Post

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

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Added by Luis Morato

Les Rousses, Switzerland

Hotel Arbez

Part of this hotel resides in Switzerland, the other in France, and the border splits the honeymoon suite.

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Pfronten, Germany

The Jungholz Quadripoint

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

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Added by littlebrumble

Vaals, Netherlands

Labyrint Drielandenpunt

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

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Added by michelle

Valga/Valka Border

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

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Added by Will Mawhood

Øresund Bridge

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

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Added by EricGrundhauser

Enontekiö, Finland

Treriksröset

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

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Rovaniemi, Finland

Rovaniemi's Arctic Circle Border

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

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Arctic Circle Marker

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Added by Ashawnta

Sarpi Border Checkpoint

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

Added by Tawsam

Ishkashim, Afghanistan

Ishkashim Border Market

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

Added by carlsont

Teshig, Mongolia

Mongolia/Russia Border Crossing No. 487

This extremely remote border crossing was closed to prevent smuggling and looting.

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Bir Tawil

Land that belongs to no nation.

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Port Jervis, New York

Tri-States Monument

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

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Added by Anna Minster

Mesquite, Nevada

AZ-NV-UT Tri-State Monument

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

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Newark, Delaware

Delaware Wedge Plaque

Two states disputed a square-mile slice of land for more than a century

Added by cdanesh

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