Equatorial Guinea doesn’t have rivers full of lakes. What it has are volcanoes, and volcanoes leave behind craters, and craters fill with water. Almost every lake worth your time here…
Vanuatu borders no countries. It’s an archipelago of roughly 80 islands floating in the South Pacific, surrounded on every side by open ocean, so it shares no land border with…
When people search “bays in Mobile,” they almost always mean Mobile Bay, the wide Gulf Coast estuary that the city of Mobile sits at the head of. Fair enough. It’s…
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…