Armenia packs an absurd variety of lakes into a country smaller than Maryland. You’ve got one inland sea that supplies most of the country’s beach culture, a scatter of glacial…
The South Carolina–North Carolina line runs 334 miles across two states, and it carves through ski-resort foothills in the west and exurban Charlotte sprawl in the east. People search for…
São Tomé and Príncipe shares no land borders with any country, because it’s an island nation sitting alone in the Gulf of Guinea. That’s the whole answer to the question,…
The Northern Territory has more land locked up in national parks than most countries have in total, and almost every “best of” list tells you the same four names in…
The Mississippi-Alabama line is one of the few state borders in the country that’s almost entirely artificial. Most state lines follow a river, a ridge, or some other thing you…
Search “lakes in Cambodia” and you get two kinds of results: a Wikipedia stub that names about two of them, and a dozen breathless write-ups about Tonle Sap that forget…
Ask “how many national parks are in Arkansas?” and you’ll get three different answers depending on who you ask. The honest one: there’s exactly one national park with that capital-letter…
Table of contents TL;DR The main New Mexico–Texas border towns to know are El Paso, Texas / Sunland Park and Santa Teresa, New Mexico on the west end, and Texico,…
Table of contents TL;DR The Tennessee–Arkansas border isn’t packed with tiny border towns the way some state lines are. The action is mostly around Memphis, West Memphis, and the Mississippi…
Lesotho is one of those countries where the landscape does most of the talking. It’s high, rugged, and full of rivers and dams, but lakes in Lesotho are a little…