This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

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

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

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.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

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

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

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

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.

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

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

The smallest country in the world.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

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

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

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.