Borders

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

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

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

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

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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 self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.