Atlas of Geographical Curiosities

A country that does not exist, an island that is Spanish for half the year and French for the other half, a hotel room where the bed is in France and the bathroom is in Switzerland, one of the few stateless territories in the world, a railway line in Germany that belongs to Belgium, the only place in the world where it is possible to cross the border thirty times at thirty different points in less than twenty minutes, an area that belongs to Norway but whose natural resources can be exploited by any country, an Italian exclave in the middle of Switzerland, the only private organization in the world that enjoys the privileges of a country, a semi-independent theocratic state that denies entry to women and female animals, tips on how to cross Russia from Finland or Estonia without a visa, a hotel room in London that was declared Yugoslav territory for one day so that Alexander II could be born in his homeland, a city consisting of just one fourteen-story skyscraper, the longest road in the world, a peninsula in the USA that can only be accessed from Canada, and a valley in Austria that can only be reached from Germany. The world is full of geographical anomalies that sometimes lead to diplomatic tensions, yet they often leave us in speechless wonder with their history and stories.