Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Land that belongs to no nation.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

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

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

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

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

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.