Here’s the thing most people get wrong about Albania: they’re scared of the wrong threat. They picture pickpockets, scams, that whole Taken movie panic. Meanwhile the actual danger is a…
Nebraska–Colorado Border Towns: A Town-by-Town Guide
The Nebraska–Colorado line runs about 200 miles across some of the emptiest, most underrated country in the United States. Most people cross it on I-76 or I-80 doing 75 mph…
Are There Landlocked Countries in Oceania?
No — Oceania has zero landlocked countries. Not one. If you came here for a quick answer to settle a quiz or a bet, that’s it. Every nation in Oceania…
Where Tennessee and Missouri Touch: The Border Towns
Most people who’ve stared at a U.S. map their whole lives have no idea Missouri and Tennessee share a border. They do. It’s short, it’s weird, and it exists because…
Crater Lakes of Equatorial Guinea: A Complete Guide
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…
15 Ghost Towns in Kansas Worth the Drive
Most ghost town lists for Kansas hand you the same thing: a 200-name alphabetical dump pulled from old post office records, half of them now just a dent in a…
What Countries Border Vanuatu? (The Honest Answer)
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…
Bays in Mobile, Alabama: A Guide to All Five
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…
12 Best Lakes in Armenia, Ranked by How Worth the Drive
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…
Useful Phrases for Tourists in Mauritania
Here’s the thing nobody tells you before you land in Nouakchott: the Arabic you studied on a language app is barely spoken here. People in Mauritania speak Hassaniya, a Bedouin…