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==Places and infrastructure==
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[[File:Hills on Mykonos.jpg|thumb|150px|Aphrodite's artistic nudity [[breast-shaped hill|shows itself]] not far from Mount Olympus.]]
[[File:Vancouver Folly coal harbour.jpg|thumb|150px|Good golly, Miss Molly{{spnd}}jus' love your [[folly]]!]]
[[File:Nimrod.1909_voyage.jpg|thumb|150px|This 1909 voyage was planned to include ''four'' separate stopovers on [[phantom island]]s.]]

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| '''[[Breast-shaped hill]]'''
| Laid bare in many places around the world. May have given their name to [[Manchester]].
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| '''[[Bookland]]'''
| The quasi-fictional country all books come from, according to barcodes.
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| '''[[Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives]]'''
| Not as unique as you might have thought.
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| '''[[Folly]]'''
| Buildings prized for their uselessness.
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| '''[[Gravity hill]]'''
| A hill that gives the illusion of objects rolling {{em|up}} it.
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| '''[[Null Island]]'''
| An "island" located at exactly 0°N and 0°E.
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| '''[[Phantom island]]'''
| Like islands, but they don't exist.
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| '''[[Pizza farm]]'''
| All the ingredients of pizza, grown in one convenient location!
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| '''[[Recursive islands and lakes]]'''
| Islands in lakes in islands in lakes in islands...
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| '''[[Rocket garden]]'''
| Landscaping and rocketry, together at last.
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| '''[[Spite house]]'''
| Various houses built solely out of spite for their neighbors.
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| '''[[Valeriepieris circle]]'''
| An imaginary circle that contains the majority of the world's population, popularized on [[Reddit]].
|}

===Africa===
[[File:Giraffe at the front door, Giraffe Manor, Nairobi, Kenya.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Giraffe Manor|Just popping by]].]]
[[File:Nyos Lake.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Lake Nyos|Crouching tiger - er, lake - hidden...not quite dragon, but maybe {{chem|CO|2}}...]]]]
[[File:Velez de la Gomera.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera|The buildings are in Spain. The ground at the bottom is in Morocco.]] Confused yet?]]
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!{{flagicon|Nigeria}}
|'''[[Abuja Airplane House]]'''
| An aeroplane-themed villa in the capital of Nigeria.
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!{{flagicon|Senegal}}
|'''[[Akon City]]'''
| A [[Akon|2000s R&B singer]] tried to create his very own city in his native [[Senegal]], based around his very own [[cryptocurrency]] "Akoin".
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!{{ubl|{{flagicon|Egypt}}|{{flagicon|Sudan}}}}
|'''[[Bir Tawil]]'''
| One of the few places on Earth not claimed by any country. An American trekked there and claimed it in 2014 as the Kingdom of North Sudan so he could make his daughter a princess.
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!{{flagicon|Egypt}}
|'''[[Blue Desert]]'''
| Following the [[Egypt–Israel peace treaty]], the [[United Nations]] gave several tons of blue paint to a Belgian artist, so he could commemorate it by painting a line of boulders in the [[Sinai Desert]] blue.
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!{{flagicon|South Africa}}
|'''[[Boulders Beach]]'''
| A beach on the Southern African coast, near an urban residential area, known for being home to a colony of several thousand penguins.
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!{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
| '''[[Congo Pedicle]]'''
| What happens when a tyrannical king decides he wants to hunt game in a swamp.
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!{{flagicon|Ethiopia}}
| '''[[Dallol (hydrothermal system)|Dallol]]'''
| A region surrounding a volcano in Ethiopia, known for its alien-looking bright colours, and populated by vast salt plains and extremely hot acidic sulfur-emitting hot springs that, according to some studies, lack even the smallest microbes. There is a [[Dallol (ghost town)|now-abandoned town]] of the same name nearby, which formerly held the record of the hottest inhabited place on Earth.
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!{{flagicon|Ethiopia}}
| '''[[Gaet'ale Pond]]'''
| A small lake in Ethiopia that was created in 2005 after an earthquake. It's not bitter, it's just {{em|really, really}} salty.
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!{{flagicon|Kenya}}
| '''[[Giraffe Manor]]'''
| A hotel in suburban [[Nairobi]] where you can eat alongside one of the world's most endangered giraffe subspecies.
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!{{flagicon|Namibia}}
| '''[[Hoba meteorite]]'''
| The largest intact meteorite in the world.
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!{{flagicon|Saint Helena}}
| '''[[Jacob's Ladder (Saint Helena)|Jacob's Ladder]]'''
| It's all {{em|very}} downhill from here.
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!{{flagicon|Nigeria}}
| '''[[Kalakuta Republic]]'''
| A compound housing [[Fela Kuti]], his family, band musicians and recording studio, which he declared independent and used to criticize the [[Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966–1979)|Nigerian military junta of the 1970s]]. They responded by raiding it with over a thousand soldiers, setting it alight, and throwing Fela's mother out of the window.
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!{{flagicon|Botswana}}
| '''[[Kanye West (Botswana constituency)|Kanye West]]'''
| Part of the village of [[Kanye, Botswana|Kanye]] along with [[Kanye East]].
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!{{flagicon|Cameroon}}
| '''[[Lake Nyos]]'''
| A lake in northwestern [[Cameroon]] that [[Lake Nyos disaster|released gas in 1986]], killing 1,746 people. One of three known gassy lakes, the others being [[Lake Monoun]] and [[Lake Kivu]].
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!{{flagicon|Senegal}}
| '''[[Lake Retba]]'''
| A lake in [[Senegal]] that is naturally pink and is one of the saltiest lakes in the world.
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!{{flagicon|Mauritania}}
| '''[[Mauritania Railway]]'''
| [[Mauritania]]'s entire national rail network consists of a single line connecting the centre of the country's iron mining industry with the port city of [[Nouadhibou]]. Said line is also home to the world's longest and heaviest trains, filled with [[iron ore]] and as long as {{convert|3|km}} in length.
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!{{flagicon|Gabon}}
| '''[[Oklo]]'''
| The former site of the world's only [[natural nuclear fission reactor]]s.
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!{{flagicon|Angola}}
| '''[[Palácio de Ferro]]'''
| A bright yellow iron building in [[Luanda]] dating back to the colonial era, that is noted for the fact that there is no record of who or why it was built - although legend has it that it was designed by [[Gustave Eiffel]], architect of the [[Eiffel Tower]].
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!{{flagicon|Spain}}{{flagicon|Morocco}}
| '''[[Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera]]'''
| A rock on the Moroccan coast connected to the mainland by an {{convert|80|m|ft|adj=mid|-wide}} [[tombolo]]; it is owned by Spain. In 2012, [[2012 Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera incident|four Moroccan irredentists attempted to storm and take over the territory]].
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!{{flagicon|Nigeria}}
| '''[[Republic of Benin (1967)]]'''
| One of the shortest-lived states in history, it was independent for only seven hours (07:00 to 14:00 on 19 September 1967).
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!{{flagicon|Yemen}}
| '''[[Socotra]]'''
| A Yemeni island that is geographically part of Africa, and is known as "the most alien-looking place on Earth" due to its strange flora. This includes the [[Dracaena cinnabari|"dragon blood tree"]] and a [[Dendrosicyos|tree which produces cucumbers]].
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!{{flagicon|Ghana}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[La Tante DC10 Restaurant]]'''
| A grounded [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10]] passenger aircraft in [[Accra]] that has been converted into a giant plane-shaped restaurant.
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!{{flagicon|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}}
|'''[[Tromelin Island]]'''
| An island near Madagascar that is famous for being the site of a major humanitarian disaster in the 18th century. 
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!{{flagicon|South Africa}}
| '''[[The Owl House (museum)|The Owl House]]'''
| Not the [[The Owl House|acclaimed animated LGBT fantasy cartoon that aired on Disney Channel]]; this is an outdoor museum that was created by a reclusive outsider artist who decorated her inherited house with over 300 glass and concrete sculptures of owls, camels, peacocks, pyramids, and other forms.
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!{{flagicon|Kenya}}
| '''[[Umoja, Kenya|Umoja]]'''
| An entire women's-only village in Kenya established in response to [[violence against women]] in [[Samburu people|Samburu]] tribal society.
|}

===Antarctica===
[[File:Blood Falls by Peter Rejcek.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Blood Falls|Quick, get a Band-Aid!]]]]
[[File:Villa-Las-Estrellas-Antarctica.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Villa Las Estrellas|Who said settlements on Antarctica were impossible?]]]]
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!{{flagicon|Ross Dependency}}
|'''[[Blood Falls]]'''
| A naturally occurring plume of saltwater that is blood red thanks to its high [[iron oxide]] content.
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![[File:True South Antarctic Flag.svg|25px|Antarctica]]
| '''[[Firefighting in Antarctica]]'''
| There aren't any wildfires, but it's the windiest place on Earth and liquid water is hard to obtain.
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![[File:True South Antarctic Flag.svg|25px|Antarctica]]
|'''[[Google Street View in Antarctica]]'''
|Google Street View: Available for literally all continents on Earth. 
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!{{flagicon|Heard Island and McDonald Islands}}
|'''[[Mawson Peak]]'''
| The tallest mountain in the [[Australia|Commonwealth of Australia]] is not on the mainland, but on a barren, uninhabited island more than {{convert|3800|km}} away.
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!{{flagicon|Ross Dependency}}
|'''[[McMurdo Dry Valleys]]'''
| An area of Antarctica that contains an [[Don Juan Pond|extremely saline body of water]] and has not experienced rainfall for over two million years.
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!{{flagicon|Antarctica}}
|'''[[Marie Byrd Land]]'''
| The largest unclaimed territory in the world. Notable for being bigger than [[Mongolia]], having one of Antarctica's biggest human bases, and being the setting of ''[[The Thing from Another World|The Thing]]''.
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!{{flagicon|Queen Maud Land}}
|'''[[New Swabia]]'''
| The Nazi territory in Antarctica.
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!{{flagicon|Australian Antarctic Territory}}
|'''[[Pole of Inaccessibility research station]]'''
| A short-lived Soviet research station in Antarctica that is now completely covered by snow - save for a small bust of [[Vladimir Lenin]] peeking out the ground.
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!{{flagicon|Magallanes y Antártica Chilena}}
|'''[[Villa Las Estrellas]]'''
| One of only two civilian settlements in Antarctica. 
|}

===Asia===
<!--[[File:OneHoleGolfCourse.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Camp Bonifas]] golf course.]]-->
<!--[[File:South China Sea claims.jpg|thumb|150px|most territories in the red line are part of [[Sansha|a city]].]]-->
[[File: Building penetrated by an expressway 001 OSAKA JPN.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gate Tower Building|A skyscraper]] with ''en suite'' highway]]
[[File:Gijeong-ri Flag.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Kijong-dong|A village]] with the (previous) tallest flagpole in the world... population: 0.]]
[[File:KWC - 1989 Aerial.jpg|thumb|150px|Roughly 50,000 people lived in [[Kowloon Walled City|that]].]]
[[File:Masuleh, Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Masuleh|The roof is the floor is the roof is the floor...]]]]
[[File:Tappi misaki 20210812132247 (51821826616).jpg|thumb|150px|Behold, [[Japan National Route 339|a national highway]].]]
[[File:Robot Building (UOB Bank, Bangkok) 2022 Dec.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Robot Building|AAAAAAAAAA... Oh.]]]]
[[File:Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.svg|150px|thumb|Name: Contains 'Jewish'. Amount of Jews: [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast|1%]].]]

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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[798 Art Zone]]'''
| How an abandoned complex of military factory buildings became the heart of Beijing's modern art scene.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Aoshima, Ehime]]'''
| An island where cats outnumber humans 36:1. Weirdly not the only cat island in Japan (see: [[Tashirojima]]).
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!{{flagicon|Armenia}}
| '''[[Artsvashen]]'''
| An Armenian town surrounded and controlled by [[Azerbaijan]]. One of a number of similar towns on this border; others include [[Yukhari Askipara]], [[Barxudarlı]] and [[Karki, Azerbaijan|Karki]].
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!{{flagicon|Afghanistan}}
| '''[[Bokhdi Amusement Park]]'''
| An Afghan amusement park that went viral after the [[Taliban]] members rode its rides, but was destroyed the next day for containing idols, which are considered [[Shirk (Islam)|Shirk]] in Islam. 
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!{{flagicon|Philippines}}
| '''[[Bust of Ferdinand Marcos]]'''
| A [[Mount Rushmore]] in the Philippines, right down to displacing its indigenous inhabitants. It was mercifully blown up by rebels in 2002.
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!{{flagicon|South Korea}}
| '''[[Camp Bonifas]]'''
| The bunkers on this golf course feature machine-guns and landmines.
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!{{flagicon|Thailand}}
| '''[[Chao Mae Tuptim shrine]]'''
| A shrine dedicated to penises in [[Bangkok]], built in the early 20th century by a Thai businessman, on the edge of his property.
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!{{flagicon|Christmas Island}}
| '''[[Christmas Island]]'''
| A small island and external territory of Australia close to Indonesia that is mainly known for having up to 100 million crabs migrate to spawn there every year.
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! {{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Curry Shop Shimizu]]'''
| A famous restaurant known for its "poo-flavored curry", not only that, it was also founded by [[Ken Shimizu|a porn star]].
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!{{flagicon|Bangladesh}}
| '''[[Dahala Khagrabari]]'''
| India inside Bangladesh inside India inside Bangladesh. Formerly the only third-order [[enclave]] in the world.
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!{{flagicon|Turkmenistan}}
| '''[[Darvaza gas crater]]'''
| A flaming, {{cvt|70|m}} wide, {{cvt|30|m}} deep crater in the middle of the [[Karakum Desert]], on fire since 1971. 
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!{{flagicon|Cyprus}}
| '''[[Dhekelia Power Station]]'''
| A Cypriot power station that provides power to a British military base that surrounds it.
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!{{ubl|{{flagicon|Chukotka}}|{{flagicon|Alaska}}}}
| '''[[Diomede Islands]]'''
| Two islands in the Bering Strait separated by {{convert|4|km}} and [[International Date Line|21 hours' time difference]].
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! {{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Endoji Shopping Arcade Statues]]'''
| The statues of famous [[Sengoku period]] warlords which were often subjected to vandalism
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Fukushima Prefecture salient]]'''
| Also known as the "umbilical cord", a [[salient (geography)|salient]] in Fukushima Prefecture, which is {{convert|8|km|mi}} long and, at its narrowest, only {{convert|90|cm|in}} wide. It also follows a trail on a [[mountain ridge]].
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!{{flagicon|Bhutan}}
| '''[[Gangkhar Puensum]]'''
| [[Highest unclimbed mountain|The tallest mountain nobody has ever summitted]], as the Bhutanese government has prohibited mountaineering since 2003.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Gate Tower Building]]'''
| A skyscraper in Japan that has a highway offramp passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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!{{flagicon|China}}
|'''[[Hallstatt (China)]]'''
| An ongoing replica construction of a town in Austria.
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!{{flagicon|South Korea}}
|'''[[Haesindang Park]]'''
| Also known as "Penis Park", this is a park on the Korean coast, known for being full of wooden statues of penises, apparently to do with local shamanic folklore.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
|'''[[Hanazono Room]]'''
| An indoor swimming pool in Japan used as the site for many pornographic films.
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!{{flagicon|Vietnam}}
|'''[[Hằng Nga Guesthouse]]'''
| Vietnam's most fantastical building?
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!{{flagicon|Taiwan}}
|'''[[High-Heel Wedding Church]]'''
| A glass slipper that Prince Charming would struggle to find a fit for.
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!{{flagicon|Israel}}<br>{{flagicon|Palestine}}
|'''[[Immovable Ladder]]'''
| A ladder against a window that can't be moved unless six separate religious groups agree to it.
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!{{flagicon|South Korea}}
|'''[[Imsil Cheese Theme Park]]'''
| I dunno, this place seems a little cheesy to me.
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Jackson Hole, China]]'''
| A planned resort town outside of Beijing that is based off a [[Jackson, Wyoming|small town in Wyoming]].
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!{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[Jatinga]]'''
| The [[Bermuda Triangle]] of birds.
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!{{flagicon|Amur Oblast}}
| '''[[Jaxa (state)]]'''
| A 17th-century microstate located on the Amur River between the Tsardom of Russia and Qing China, with a population mostly consisting of Poles and Ukrainians.
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!{{flagicon|Jewish Autonomous Oblast}}
| '''[[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]]'''
| In the depths of Eastern [[Siberia]] there's a place with street names in [[Yiddish]], even though 99% of its population is not Jewish.
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!{{flagicon|Afghanistan}}
| '''[[Kabul synagogue]]'''
| The last synagogue in [[Kabul]] was inhabited by two men, who both ended up being imprisoned by the [[Taliban]] because they got annoyed by the two constantly complaining about each other, before later being converted by one of the men into a kebab restaurant.
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!{{flagicon|Philippines}}
| '''[[Kamuning Footbridge]]'''
| Nicknamed as "Mount Kamuning" and "Stairway to Heaven". It is infamous for its steep height.
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!{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[Karni Mata Temple]]'''
| A marble temple famous for 25,000 revered [[black rats]] that live in the temple who are considered the ancestors of [[Charans]].
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!{{flagicon|Pakistan}}
| '''[[Khewra Salt Mine]]'''
| One of the largest salt mines in the world, it was allegedly discovered by [[Alexander the Great]]'s horses.
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!{{flagicon|North Korea}}
| '''[[Kijong-dong]]'''
| rowspan=2|Two unique Korean villages, separated by the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone|DMZ]] and notable for their arms race of giant flagpoles. The North Korean village contains a [[Propaganda in North Korea|propaganda]]-blasting loudspeaker and [[Potemkin village|zero residents]] to hear it. Meanwhile its Southern counterpart forbids residency except to families that have been there since before the [[Korean War|War]], and grows "DMZ rice" that makes the farmers exceptionally wealthy.
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!{{flagicon|South Korea}}
| '''[[Daeseong-dong]]'''
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!{{flagicon|North Korea}}
| '''[[Korea Central Zoo]]'''
| A zoo with such wondrous animals as a [[chimpanzee]] with a smoking habit, a [[parrot]] that sings the praises of [[Kim Il-sung]], and [[dog]]s.
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!{{flagicon|Hong Kong}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Kowloon Walled City]]'''
| A former enclave in the city of Hong Kong, known for lawlessness and extremely cramped conditions before it was destroyed and turned into a park.
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!{{flagicon|Hong Kong}}
| '''[[Li's field]]'''
| A supposed forcefield that explains why tropical cyclones swerve away from Hong Kong.
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!{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[Living root bridge]]'''
| Double-decker suspension bridges formed of living plant [[aerial root]]s of [[Ficus elastica|rubber fig trees]] by [[tree shaping]] common in the southern part of the [[Northeast India]]n state of [[Meghalaya]].
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!{{flagicon|South Korea}}
| '''[[Love Land (South Korea)|Love Land]]'''
| An erotic-themed sculpture park on [[Jeju Island]] in South Korea.
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Maijishan Grottoes]]'''
| A massive complex of hundreds of man-made caves, stairways and thousands of Buddhist sculptures carved into the side of a mountain in the fifth century, high above the surface.
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!{{flagicon|Iran}}
| '''[[Masuleh]]'''
| A village built on the side of a mountain in such a way that most of the walkable space in the village is on the rooftops of the buildings of the layer below.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Missing Post Office]]'''
| Where all the world's undeliverable post goes.
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!{{flagicon|Taiwan}}
| '''[[Modern Toilet Restaurant]]'''
| Wait, that isn't the kind of bowl I want to eat out of...
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!{{flagicon|Sharjah}}
| '''[[Nahwa]]'''
| One of only eight counter-enclaves (enclaves of enclaves).
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!{{flagicon|Azerbaijan}}
| '''[[Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic]]'''
| A landlocked [[exclave]] of [[Azerbaijan]] (it is surrounded by three different countries rather than only one, so it is not an [[enclave]]).
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Nanjie]]'''
| A settlement in [[Henan]] Province that is often described as "China's last [[Maoism|Maoist]] village", maintaining a collectively-owned economy and public displays and statues of historic [[Marxist-Leninist]] leaders.
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!{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[National Fisheries Development Board building]]'''
| Mimetic architecture in [[Hyderabad]]: a building shaped like a humongous fish.
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!{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[North Sentinel Island]]'''
| A small island in the [[Bay of Bengal]], known for being inhabited by a virtually [[uncontacted peoples|uncontacted]] isolationist tribe who attack all outsiders who attempt to land on their island. The Indian government leaves them alone, outlawing all travel to the island - although that hasn't stopped some foolish travellers from trying.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Japan National Route 339|National Route 339]]'''
| A national highway with a staircase in the middle.
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!{{flagicon|Turkmenistan}}
| '''[[Neutrality Monument]]'''
| A massive legged arch built in the capital of Turkmenistan by the [[Saparmurat Niyazov|eccentric former dictator]] to commemorate the fact that Turkmenistan is officially neutral. Also used to feature a gold-plated statue of him on top that constantly rotated so that it always faced the sun.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Okinoshima (Fukuoka)]]'''
| An entire island that is considered a ''[[kami]]'' in the [[Shinto]] religion, and is continuously inhabited by lone Shinto priests who spend ten-day shifts guarding the shrine on the island. Women are prohibited due to their [[menstruation]], as blood is considered impure in Shinto.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Ōkunoshima]]'''
| An island between the Japanese home islands of [[Honshu]] and [[Shikoku]] formerly home to a chemical weapons plant in WW2, now home to a huge population of feral but largely tame rabbits.
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!{{flagicon|India}}
|'''[[Om Banna]]'''
| An Indian shrine dedicated to a supposedly-sentient motorbike.
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!{{flagicon|Russia}}
|'''[[Omsk Metro]]'''
| A metro system with only one station and a total length of zero kilometres.
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!{{flagicon|Russia}}
| '''[[Peanut Hole]]'''
| A delightfully named patch of ocean in the [[Sea of Okhotsk]] that is totally surrounded by [[Russia]]'s [[Exclusive economic zone|EEZ]] but not inside it. Often the subject of foreign [[overfishing]].
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Porcelain Palace]]'''
| China's largest and most lavish palace - that is dedicated to the humble [[public toilet]].
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! {{flagicon|Hong Kong}}
| '''[[Rednaxela Terrace]]'''
| A street in Hong Kong, whose name was reportedly reversed due to a clerical error.
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! {{flagicon|Thailand}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Robot Building]]'''
| That's not a giant robot looming in Bangkok; it's just a bank's headquarters.
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! {{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[Roopkund]]'''
| A small lake in the Himalayas known for mysteriously having hundreds of ancient human skeletons along its edges.
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!{{flagicon|North Korea}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Ryugyong Hotel]]'''
| Once, it would have been the world's tallest hotel&nbsp;– except it lacked windows, fittings, or fixtures for over twenty years.
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!{{N/A}}
| '''[[San Serriffe]]'''
| A lesser-known island in the Indian Ocean, subject of the April{{nbsp}}1, 1977 ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]''.
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Sansha]]'''
| A disputed prefecture-level city in [[Hainan]] consisting of a collection of [[atoll]]s and reefs throughout the [[South China Sea]]. 
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!{{flagicon|Vietnam}}
| '''[[Kingdom of Sedang]]'''
| In the 1880s, a French adventurer created a kingdom in Vietnam.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line]]'''
| The closed funicular that connects an underground train station inside the [[Seikan Tunnel]] with a museum.
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! {{flagicon|Philippines}}
| '''[[Sasmuan]]'''
| The municipality was formerly called ''Sexmoán''. But due to the sexual connotations of the name, it was changed to the current name in 1991.
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!{{flagicon|India}}
| '''[[Shani Shingnapur]]'''
| A holy Hindu village that doesn't have any doors.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Shingō, Aomori]]'''
| A town in Japan that is (supposedly) home to the [[Kirisuto no Haka|tomb]] of [[Jesus]]. The story behind the supposed tomb is even odder.
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!{{flagicon|Malaysia}}
| '''[[Snake Temple]]'''
| A Chinese temple most notable for having living snakes within its compounds. It also has a snake breeding area.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Sobieto]]'''
| Its name could be interpreted as "Soviet" Island, despite that the name is probably far more ancient than communism... 
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!{{flagicon|Uzbekistan}}
| '''[[Sokh District]]'''
| An exclave of [[Uzbekistan]] enclaved within [[Kyrgyzstan]] with a 99% [[Tajiks|Tajik]] population.
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China]]'''
| The Communist Chinese government elects delegates to represent an island it has never owned or controlled.
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Tashirojima]]'''
| An island in [[Japan]] notable for being full of cats. Weirdly not the only cat island in Japan (see: [[Aoshima, Ehime]]).
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!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Thames Town]]'''
| An entire replica English-style town built as an upscale planned community near Shanghai. Mostly empty, but a popular destination for wedding photography.
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!{{flagicon|Saudi Arabia}}
| '''[[The Line, Saudi Arabia|The Line]]'''
| A [[planned city]] in Saudi Arabia that was originally planned to be a 110-mile long straight line and has been described by critics as "dystopian."
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!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[The world's smallest park]]'''
| The smallest park in the world{{spnd}}{{convert|0.24|m2|sqin|abbr=on}}{{spnd}}in [[Nagaizumi]], [[Shizuoka Prefecture|Shizuoka]].
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!{{flagicon|India}}
|'''[[Thimmamma Marrimanu]]'''
| A single tree with a canopy that covers 19,107 m<sup>2</sup>, and consequently is considered sacred among followers of several Indian religions.
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!{{flagicon|Turkey}}
| '''[[Tomb of Suleyman Shah]]'''
| One of the burial sites of the first Ottoman emperor's grandfather is part of [[Turkey]] despite being {{convert|27|km}} south of the country's border with [[Syria]].
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!{{flagicon|Indonesia}}
| '''[[Trunyan]]'''
| A village in Bali where residents openly lay corpses on the ground and wait for them to decompose instead of cremating or burying them.
|-
!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Tsu Station]]'''
| By [[kana]], the tersest railway station in Japan, serving [[Tsu, Mie|the capital of an almost as terse prefecture]]. By stroke count, the tersest in the world. By transliteration, only {{em|second}}-tersest.
|-
!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Underground City (Beijing)]]'''
| A massive complex of tunnels underneath Beijing, built in the Cold War as a nuclear bomb shelter, fitted with facilities such as schools, clinics, factories and even an ice rink.
|-
!{{flagicon|Qatar}}
|'''[[Villaggio Mall]]'''
| A Qatari shopping mall built to resemble an Italian town, with Venetian canals and [[gondola]]s. Also notorious for being the site of a deadly nursery fire in 2012.
|-
!{{flagicon|Thailand}}
| '''[[Wang Saen Suk]]'''
| A place in Thailand dedicated to materialized [[Buddhist]] hell scenes. 
|-
!{{flagicon|China}}
|'''[[Wonderland Amusement Park (Beijing)|Wonderland Amusement Park]]'''
| The largest abandoned amusement park in Asia.
|-
!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[X-Seed 4000]]'''
| The tallest building ever designed, standing {{convert|4|km}} tall and housing 500,000 to 1,000,000{{nbsp}}people on 800{{nbsp}}floors. It is, however, "never meant to be built".
|-
!{{flagicon|Japan}}
| '''[[Yokohama Chinatown]]'''
| Despite having a small population of around 3,000 to 4,000, it remains the biggest and most notable [[Chinatown]] in Japan today.
|-
!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Yongning Pagoda]]'''
| A 6th-century [[pagoda]] that was possibly the tallest structure in the world until it was destroyed by lightning 18 years after its completion.
|-
!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Zhangye National Geopark]]'''
| A national park known for its mountains with natural multicoloured stripes.
|-
!{{flagicon|China}}
| '''[[Zheltuga Republic]]'''
| An illegal gold mining settlement that developed into a thriving unrecognised country, only surviving because the Chinese government was unaware that it existed.
|}

===Europe===
[[File:Bouzloudja02.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Buzludzha monument|Workers of the galaxy, unite!]]]]
[[File:Tombeau Facteur Cheval.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Ferdinand Cheval|A postman]]'s labor of love.]]
[[File:Husavik Phallusmuseum.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Icelandic Phallological Museum|Make sure you're covered]].]]
[[File:Märket Island map.svg|thumb|150px|Careful where you put [[Märket|that lighthouse]], Eugene...]]
[[FIle:Liechtenstein - Gemeinden mit Exklaven.png|thumb|150px|[[Municipalities of Liechtenstein|Borders]], courtesy of [[Pablo Picasso]].]]
[[File:Sealand fortress.jpg|thumb|150px|Welcome to the [[Principality of Sealand]].]]
[[File:Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg|thumb|150px|A chandelier, decorating the [[Sedlec Ossuary]], made from human bones.]]
[[File:Shell-grotto-margate.jpg|thumb|150px|A mosaic of [[Shell Grotto, Margate|4.6 million seashells]]. Who built it? When? For what purpose?]]
[[File:The Shitterton Sign.jpg|thumb|150px|The name [[Shitterton]], proudly displayed in stone.]]
[[File:Unst Bus Shelter.jpg|thumb|150px|The UK's northernmost and best-decorated [[Unst Bus Shelter|bus shelter]].]]
[[File:Carte Listenbourg.jpg|thumb|150px|Who doesn't know about [[Listenbourg|Listenbourg?]]]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!{{flagicon|France}}
| '''[[Abode of Chaos]]'''
| An artist buys an old scenic house in a rural town and transforms it into a replica warzone that serves as an open-air museum of radical avant-garde art, angering locals enough to sue him in France's supreme court.
|-
!{{flagicon|Sweden}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Ängelholm UFO memorial]]'''
| A memorial to a reputed [[UFO]] landing in Sweden.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Argleton]]'''
| A non-existent town in [[Lancashire]], [[England]] that appeared on [[Google Maps]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Flemish Region}}
| '''[[Baarle-Hertog]]'''
| rowspan=2|Two municipalities, one of Belgium and one of the Netherlands, that [[enclave and exclave|surround each other twice and many times over]]. Some houses and shops are in both countries.
|-
!{{flagicon|Netherlands}}
| '''[[Baarle-Nassau]]'''
|-
!{{flagicon|Ireland}}
| '''[[Barack Obama Plaza]]'''
| A [[motorway service area]] in [[County Tipperary]], Ireland celebrating the work and Irish heritage of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Spain}}
| '''[[Barcelona Supercomputing Center]]'''
| A supercomputer in a medieval chapel.
|-
!{{flagicon|Svalbard and Jan Mayen}}
|'''[[Barentsburg]]'''
|A completely Russian town, inhabited by Russians, with Russian buildings, supported financially by the Russian government, located in Norway.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
|'''[[Barra Airport]]'''
|An airport that only operates when the tide allows.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
|'''[[Battersea Power Station tube station]]'''
|A train station named after a non-train station.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
|'''[[Beans and Bacon mine]]'''
| With such little ventilation, visitors may want to avoid any source of ignition. Nearby mines are not to be outdone and have the following names: Mule Spinner, Frogs Hole, Cackle Mackle, and Wanton Legs.
|-
!{{flagicon|Brandenburg}}
| '''[[Berlin Brandenburg Airport]]'''
| An airport in Berlin whose construction is finished but which is unfinished in other areas. Construction was finished in 2012; however, the opening date was repeatedly pushed back as the fire suppression system was installed incorrectly. It finally opened in October 2020.
|-
!{{flagicon|North Rhine-Westphalia}}
| '''[[Bielefeld conspiracy]]'''
| The ''Bielefeld-Verschwörung'' tries to hide the horrible truth about a city in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]] that doesn't exist ... well, maybe.
|-
!{{flagicon|Saarland}}
| '''[[Brennender Berg]]'''
| A German coal mine on fire since 1668.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[The Broomway]]'''
| Perhaps the most dangerous path in the world. Would you join the hundred others who died walking the invisible path?
|-
!{{flagicon|Graubünden}}
| '''[[Brusio spiral viaduct]]'''
| The title says it all, really.
|-
!{{flagicon|Schleswig-Holstein}}
| '''[[Bucket Lake]]'''
| A lake that only exists thanks to the wanton misuse of a plastic bucket.
|-
!{{flagicon|Albania}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Bunkers in Albania]]'''
| [[Enver Hoxha]] loved them so much he decided to fill his country with over 173,000 of them.
|-
!{{flagicon|Baden-Württemberg}}
| '''[[Büsingen am Hochrhein]]'''
| A German town that is [[exclave|fully contained]] within Switzerland.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Butt Hole Road]]'''
| A tiny residential street in the UK that was so infamous for its name that it became a tourist attraction.
|-
!{{flagicon|Bulgaria}}
| '''[[Buzludzha monument]]'''
| A futurist monument built by the [[Bulgarian Communist Party]] that looks like a communist spaceship – especially on the inside.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ukraine}}
| '''[[Carpatho-Ukraine]]'''
| The third-shortest-lived state in history (see [[Republic of Benin (1967)|Benin Republic in Nigeria]]); it was independent for only 24 hours.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Cerne Abbas Giant]]'''
| An indecent chalk man in the English countryside.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
| '''[[Clachan Bridge]]'''
| Walk across the Atlantic in just 30 seconds!
|-
!{{flagicon|Piedmont}}
| '''[[Colletto Fava]]'''
| A {{convert|1500|m|ft|adj=on}} hill with a {{convert|61|m|ft|adj=on}} stuffed pink [[rabbit|bunny]] on top.
|-
!{{flagicon|North Rhine-Westphalia}}
| '''[[Cologne sewerage system]]'''
| Probably the only sewers with a Chandelier Hall that hosts music performances. Probably.
|-
!{{flagicon|Spain}}<br/>{{flagicon|Portugal}}
| '''[[Couto Misto]]'''
| A ''de facto'' independent [[microstate]] on the border between Spain and Portugal that existed until the 19th century.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Crinkley Bottom]]'''
| An unsuccessful series of three theme parks built across England, devoted to a [[Mr Blobby|grotesque and horrifying BBC children's TV character from the 90s]]. One of them collapsed within four months of opening due to a massive and costly legal dispute with the local council over funding and liquor permits, while the abandoned site of another was demolished after it was used to host illegal raves.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[The Crooked House]]'''
| A pub along the Staffordshire/Black Country border which was at an angle due to ground subsidence as a result of local mining activity, causing bottles rolled along tables to appear to roll uphill. It was destroyed in suspicious circumstances in August 2023.
|-
!{{flagicon|Poland}}
| '''[[Crooked Forest]]'''
| A grove of pine trees that are all bent in the same direction just as they emerge from the ground, before going straight back up again as normal. Nobody knows why this is the case.
|-
!{{flagicon|Netherlands}}
| '''[[Cube house]]'''
| A group of unusually-shaped houses designed to maximize their space.
|-
!{{flagicon|Czech Republic}}
| '''[[Dancing House]]'''
| Also known as "Ginger and Fred" for its resemblance to a pair of dancers.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Dartmouth railway station]]'''
| A train station that has been open since 1864 despite no trains ever stopping there.
|-
!{{flagicon|Serbia}}
| '''[[Dry Bridge]]'''
| After the river that this bridge spanned was dried up, it remained, connecting two pieces of the same field that don't have any physical barriers between them. 
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Dumb Woman's Lane]]'''
| A lane in East Sussex with a humorous name. [[Spike Milligan]] used to live there, and [[Paul McCartney]] wrote a poem about it.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
| '''[[Ebenezer Place, Wick]]'''
| The world's shortest street.
|-
!{{flagicon|Baden-Württemberg}}
| '''[[Eichener See]]'''
| A lake in southern Germany that only occasionally contains water.
|-
!{{flagicon|Netherlands}}
| '''[[Eurobridges Spijkenisse]]'''
| The generic bridges of the euro banknotes brought to reality.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ireland}}
| '''[[Fr. Pat Noise plaque|Father Pat Noise plaque]]'''
| O'Connell Bridge bears a tribute to a priest who was as dearly remembered as he was completely fictional.
|-
!{{flagicon|France}}
| '''[[Ferdinand Cheval]]'''
| A postman, who, for thirty-three years, collected stones while making his rounds and used them to build a [[Surrealism|surreal]] ''Palais Idéal'' ("Ideal Palace") of astonishing proportions and intricate detail.
|-
!{{flagicon|Sicily}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Ferdinandea Island]]'''
| The island that disappeared. And rose again. And sank again. And rose again. And sank again.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
| '''[[Flannan Isles Lighthouse]]'''
| Located on Eilean Mór, this lighthouse to the west of Scotland is the subject of an enduring mystery over the disappearance of its keepers in 1900.
|-
!{{flagicon|Brandenburg}}
| '''[[Forest swastika]]'''
| A gigantic [[swastika]] made of [[larch]] trees that went unnoticed for nearly sixty years.
|-
!{{flagicon|Hesse}}
| '''[[Free State of Bottleneck]]'''
| When occupation zones don't ''quite'' meet closely enough, you get a tiny slice of the Rhineland that acts as its own country.
|-
!{{flagicon|Austria}}
| '''[[Fugging, Upper Austria]]'''
| A village in Austria that used to be called "Fucking", but changed its profane-sounding name after years of torment in the form of stolen road signs (some of which had to be enstoned in concrete) to something that still sounds kind of profane.
|-
!{{flagicon|Croatia}}
| '''[[Galešnjak]]'''
| An island off the coast of Croatia that is naturally shaped like a [[heart symbol]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Ukraine}}
| '''[[Gammalsvenskby]]'''
| A Swedish village, populated by Swedes, who speak [[Gammalsvenska|an ancient Swedish dialect]], in Ukraine.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Gants Hill tube station]]'''
| A station on the [[London Underground]] designed to look like a station on the [[Moscow Metro]].
|-
!{{flagicon|South Tyrol}}
| '''[[Graun im Vinschgau]]'''
| This village's most proud landmark is an underwater church tower, the last remnant of the old flooded village right next to it.
|-
!{{flagicon|Hamburg}}
| '''[[Great Tower Neuwerk]]'''
| The oldest standing building "in" Hamburg is a lighthouse over 100 km away.
|-
!{{flagicon|Poland}}
| '''[[Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue]]'''
| A giant artificial palm tree created to remind everyone of the name of the street it's on.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| {{icon|FA}} '''[[Gropecunt Lane]]'''
| A street name found in English towns and cities during the [[Middle Ages]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Lithuania}}
| '''[[Grūtas Park]]'''
| Alternatively known as Stalin World, this park answers the little-asked question of "what should we do with all these Soviet-era statues and monuments from our oppressive past?" Won its creator, mushroom magnate Viliumas Malinauskas, the 2001 [[Ig Nobel Prize]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Hesse}}
| '''[[Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald]]'''
| A "village" that covers 180 square kilometres of uninhabited forest, with only two inhabitants: the owners of a restaurant.
|-
!{{flagicon|Lithuania}}
| '''[[Hill of Crosses]]'''
| This small hill in northern Lithuania is home to over 100,000 crosses and other [[Catholic]] symbols planted in the ground.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[I Love You Will U Marry Me]]'''
| A graffiti proposal that has long outlasted the relationship, and is now marked by neon lights.
|-
!{{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
|'''[[ICAR Canned Beef Monument]]'''
| A tribute to the aid to Sarajevo that nobody really wanted.
|-
!{{flagicon|Iceland}}
| {{icon|FA}} '''[[Icelandic Phallological Museum]]'''
| A museum in [[Iceland]] solely devoted to the collection of [[penis]] specimens and penis-related art.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[JASON reactor]]'''
| The only nuclear reactor in a 17th-century building.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
| '''[[Jordanhill Railway Station]]'''
| An ordinary railway station in Glasgow... is what this ''would've'' been had it not been the subject of the [[Wikipedia:Millionth Topic Pool|millionth article on Wikipedia]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Poland}}
| '''[[Kielce Bus Station]]'''
| A Polish bus station that was deliberately designed to look like a UFO.
|-
!{{flagicon|Hungary}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Kőbánya cellar system]]'''
| [[Budapest]] has an expansive underground complex of beer and wine cellars that is so large it totals around {{convert|200000|m2}} in area.
|-
!{{flagicon|Poland}}
| '''[[Krzywy Domek]]'''
| The most interesting house in Poland. 
|-
!{{flagicon|Saxony}}
| '''[[Kursdorf]]'''
| A village that was abandoned after being gradually encircled after a nearby major airport, resulting in an average sound level of nearly 60 decibels. It earned the title of "the loudest village in Germany".
|-
!{{flagicon|Lazio}}
| '''[[Lacus Curtius]]'''
| A pit in the middle of the Roman Forum; even the Romans didn't know why it was there.
|-
!{{flagicon|Hesse}}
| '''[[Lahn, Hesse|Lahn]]'''
| A city so unpopular, not only did it only last 2 years, but its only local elections were won by the party that promised to wipe it off the map.
|-
!{{flagicon|Chelyabinsk Oblast}}
| '''[[Lake Karachay]]'''
| Formerly a lake, it had so much nuclear waste dumped into it that it's now completely dry and possibly the [[Pollution of Lake Karachay|most polluted place on earth]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Lower Saxony}}
| '''[[Leaning Tower of Suurhusen]]'''
| Beating the world-famous [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] by 1.22 degrees.
|-
!{{flagicon|Spain}}
| '''[[Listenbourg]]'''
| The European country most Americans can't point out on a map (because it doesn't exist).
|-
!{{flagicon|Wales}}
| '''[[Llandegley International Airport]]'''
| When is an international airport not an international airport? When it's not an airport at all.
|-
!{{flagicon|Wales}}
| '''[[Llanfairpwllgwyngyll]]'''
| Or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, if you want to get technical.
|-
!{{flagicon|Campania}}
| '''[[Lupanar]]'''
| A brothel preserved underneath the ashes of [[Pompeii]], complete with 2000-year-old lewd graffiti.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead)|Magic Roundabout]]'''
| Only in the United Kingdom would you find a large [[roundabout]] with six [[Roundabout#Mini roundabouts|mini-roundabouts]]. (Not to be confused with the "Magic Roundabout"s in [[Magic Roundabout (Colchester)|Colchester]], [[Magic Roundabout (Swindon)|Swindon]] or [[Magic Roundabout (High Wycombe)|High Wycombe]]&nbsp;– or, for that matter, [[The Magic Roundabout|this "Magic Roundabout"]].)
|-
!{{flagicon|Belgium}}
| '''[[Manneken Pis]]'''<br>'''[[Jeanneke Pis]]'''
| A statue in [[Brussels]] depicting a urinating child. And its female counterpart.
|-
!{{flagicon|Sweden}}<br/>{{flagicon|Finland}}
| '''[[Märket]]'''
| A lighthouse built on this island led to a redefinition of the border between [[Sweden]] and [[Finland]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Moscow Oblast}}
|'''[[Metro-2]]'''
| A purported secret metro line in Moscow.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ireland}}
|'''[[Millstreet]]'''
| A small town in [[Ireland]] that hosted the [[1993 Eurovision Song Contest]] despite only having a population of around 1,500 at that time.
|-
!{{flagicon|Bavaria}}
|'''[[Monte Kaolino]]'''
| A [[ski resort]] without snow.
|-
!{{flagicon|Greece}}
|'''[[Mount Athos]]'''
| An autonomous polity in Greece home to 20 monasteries, notable for being the only political subdivision in the world in which women (as well as female animals) are prohibited from entering for any reason.
|-
!{{flagicon|Liechtenstein}}
| '''[[Municipalities of Liechtenstein]]'''
| The blotchy, angular borders between these divisions seem almost arbitrarily strange. The [[Emirates of the United Arab Emirates|UAE's]] are similarly weird.
|-
!{{flagicon|Croatia}}
| '''[[Museum of Broken Relationships]]'''
| Zagreb is home to this collection of things left behind by break-ups.
|-
!{{flagicon|Moscow Oblast}}
| '''[[Muzeon Park of Arts]]'''
| A [[Russia]]n park best known for its toppled statues.
|-
!{{flagicon|Finland}}
| '''[[Neitokainen]]'''
| This isn't just any pond in Finland, this is a pond in Finland that looks exactly like Finland!
|-
!{{flagicon|Ireland}}
| {{icon|FA}} '''[[Nelson's Pillar]]'''
| Dublin used to have its own version of [[Nelson's Column]], that ended up serving as a symbol of British imperialism up until the 1960s, when it was blown up by Irish republicans, leading to the creation of several celebratory folk songs.
|-
!{{flagicon|Belgium}}
| '''[[Neutral Moresnet]]'''
| A tiny [[Europe]]an region{{spnd}}approximately {{convert|{{convert|900|acre|mi2|disp=number}}|mi2}}{{spnd}}that existed for a century as [[Neutral country|neutral territory]] between [[Germany]] and [[Belgium]].
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Newhaven Marine railway station]]'''
| A railway station that was technically open between 2006 and 2020, despite no passenger trains serving the station during that time, an inability to buy tickets to the station and the station itself being demolished in 2017.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ireland}}
| '''''[[New York–Dublin Portal]]'''''
| An art exhibit visually connecting the streets of the two cities that was temporarily shut down after multiple instances of flashing, profanities, and showcasing images of the [[September 11 attacks]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Czech Republic}}
| '''[[Other World Kingdom]]'''
| A [[micronation]] and [[BDSM]] resort whose ultimate goal is "absolute [[matriarchy]]"{{spnd}}for all men to be enslaved by women.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
| '''[[Overtoun Bridge]]'''
| A 50-foot-high bridge that dogs keep jumping off.
|-
!{{flagicon|Sweden}}
| '''[[Paradiskullen]]'''
| A ski jumping hill with a landing area that goes under one of Sweden's busiest railroads.
|-
!{{flagicon|France}}<br/>{{flagicon|Spain}}
| '''[[Pheasant Island]]'''
| An uninhabited river island which switches sovereignty between France and Spain every six months.
|-
!{{flagicon|Romania}}
|'''[[Piața Romană metro station]]'''
| A station on the [[Bucharest Metro]] that was cancelled because the [[Elena Ceaușescu|wife]] of [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] was worried that the students nearby would get fat and need exercise. It was built in secret anyway and thus opened in 1988.
|-
!{{flagicon|France}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station]]'''
| An unassuming military station in France became a ''cause célèbre'' after French Intelligence tried to threaten Wikipedia into deleting its article on it.
|-
!{{flagicon|Slovenia}}
| '''[[Predjama Castle]]'''
| A castle built partially inside the mouth of a nearby cave.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Principality of Sealand]]'''
| A [[micronation]] located {{convert|6|mi}} off the coast of [[Suffolk]], [[England]] whose population rarely exceeds ten.
|-
!{{flagicon|Bremen}}
| '''[[Punkendeich]]'''
| A former dyke that was once the home of prostitutes, and is now the site of a festival where a tailor walks across the river to check if it's frozen.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Reality Checkpoint]]'''
| A lamppost with its own name.
|-
!{{flagicon|Switzerland}}
| '''[[Röstigraben]]'''
| The "Coarsely Grated Potato Ditch" in Switzerland, dividing Swiss-German and Swiss-French cuisine.
|-
!{{flagicon|Pskov Oblast}}
| '''[[Saatse Boot]]'''
| A piece of Russian territory through which a {{convert|900|m|ft|adj=on}} stretch of Estonian road passes. Although people are allowed to drive on the road without a permit or visa, it is prohibited to travel on foot, or to stop the vehicle for any reason.
|-
!{{flagicon|Berlin}}
| '''[[Schwerbelastungskörper]]'''
| A piece of [[Nazi architecture]] in Berlin, built with the sole purpose of being heavy.
|-
!{{flagicon|Netherlands}}
| '''[[Scottish Court in the Netherlands]]'''
| A former Dutch NATO base called Camp Zeist was briefly ceded to Scotland to enable the trial of the [[Pan Am Flight 103]] bombers.
|-
!{{flagicon|Czech Republic}}
| '''[[Sedlec Ossuary]]'''
| A Christian chapel decorated by the bones of approximately 40,000{{nbsp}}people.
|-
!{{flagicon|Spain}}
| '''[[Sexi (Phoenician colony)]]'''
| An ancient ruins, also known as ''Sex'' or ''Ex'', with several Roman-era suburbs, including ''Pænis'', ''Socordia'' and ''Villa Fatuus Maximus''.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
|'''[[Shell Grotto, Margate]]'''
|A grotto with a mosaic of 4.6 million seashells, hidden underneath a backyard. Nobody knows who built it, when, or for what purpose.
|-
!{{flagicon|Emilia-Romagna}}
|'''[[Shit Museum]]'''
|Don't worry, it's actually a good museum. For looking at excrement.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Shitterton]]'''
| Its sign got stolen so often, they bought a 1.5 tonne stone with the town's name engraved in it. (Surprisingly, that rude name really does mean what you'd think.)
|-
!{{flagicon|Wales}}
| '''[[Smallest House in Great Britain]]'''
| Only {{convert|5.49|m2}} in size, in North Wales. 
|-
!{{flagicon|Finland}}
| '''[[SnowCastle of Kemi]]'''
| The world's largest [[snow fort]] and [[ice hotel]], constantly rebuilt and redesigned each winter.
|-
!{{flagicon|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}}
|'''[[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]]''' 
| A sovereign state with no land? How is that possible?
|-
!{{flagicon|Baden-Württemberg}}
| '''[[Spreuerhofstraße]]'''
| The world's narrowest street.
|-
!{{flagicon|Svalbard}}
| '''[[Svalbard Global Seed Vault]]'''
| If a global [[famine]] occurs, you better hope you live in [[Svalbard]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Transnistria}}
| '''[[Transnistria]]'''
| An unrecognized state that broke away from [[Moldova]] during the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|fall of the Soviet Union]] due to ethnic tensions and has remained in limbo ever since, retaining Soviet-era aesthetics and even a hammer and sickle on its flag.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Uffington White Horse]]'''
| A giant chalk figure that has to be hit with hammers regularly to maintain it.
|-
!{{flagicon|Scotland}}
| '''[[Unst Bus Shelter]]'''
| The only of its kind on the island of [[Unst]], [[Shetland]]. It is periodically refurnished and contains a sofa and TV.
|-
!{{flagicon|Sweden}}
| '''[[Uppland Runic Inscription 53]]'''
| An 11th century runestone which got accidental fame by being scavenged for the foundation of a 17th century building in the middle of [[Stockholm]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Hungary}}
| '''[[Vajdahunyad Castle]]'''
| A castle in [[Budapest]] that was originally partially built out of cardboard. 
|-
!{{flagicon|Vatican City}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Vatican Railway]]'''
| It consists of a {{convert|680|m|ft|adj=on}} [[branch line]] and was constructed as a direct result of the Vatican's recognition as a country.
|-
!{{flagicon|Belgium}}
| '''[[Vennbahn]]'''
| A disused railway in Belgium which separates five pieces of Germany from the rest of Germany.
|-
!{{flagicon|Belarus}}
| '''[[Veyshnoria]]'''
| A nonexistent border country of [[Belarus]] invented for a [[Union State]] military exercise and adopted by the Internet. It's totally coincidental that the territory of this "enemy state" corresponds to the [[Catholic Church in Belarus|most Catholic]], [[1994 Belarusian presidential election|most anti-Lukashenko]], and [[c:File:Idioma bielorruso.png|least Russian-speaking]] regions of Belarus, honest.
|-
!{{flagicon|France}}
| '''[[Victor Noir]]'''
| A young journalist killed by the cousin of the French Emperor, who subsequently became a symbol of resistance prior to the fall of [[Second French Empire|the regime]]... who also got a statue of himself with a massive bulge in his crotch that subsequently became a fertility symbol, with the bulge having become worn and polished due to being fondled by so many members of the public.
|-
!{{flagicon|Lithuania}}<br/>{{flagicon|Poland}}
| '''[[Vilnius–Lublin Portal]]'''
| A first-of-its-kind project connecting residents on the streets of the two cities, and the predecessor to a [[New York-Dublin Portal|much more chaotic]] one.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Wallsend Metro station]]'''
| A station on the [[Tyne and Wear Metro]] in Northern England which has Latin signage.
|-
!{{flagicon|Germany}}
| '''[[Weißwurstäquator]]'''
| The "White Sausage Equator" in Germany.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
|'''[[White's]]'''
| London's oldest and most famous gentleman's club had several famous people as members, including [[King Charles III]], [[Prince William]], former prime minister [[David Cameron]] and so on. The club is pretty much top secret, so yes, the English [[Illuminati]] definitely aren't lurking and drinking tea there. Also, no girls are allowed.
|-
!{{flagicon|England}}
| '''[[Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate]]'''
| And the best street name has to go to this street in [[York]], England. Also said to be the shortest street in the city too!
|-
!{{flagicon|Romania}}
| '''[[Wooden Spoons Museum]]'''
| A museum with the largest collection of wooden spoons in the world, ranging from 3,500 to over 6,000. Ladles and 500 erasers can also be found!
|-
!{{flagicon|Denmark}}
| '''[[World Map at Lake Klejtrup]]'''
| After finding a rock shaped like the Jutland peninsula, a Danish farmer was inspired to create a map of the world out of the surrounding countryside over the next 25 years.
|-
!{{flagicon|Poland}}
| '''[[Wrocław Dwarfs]]'''
| Gotta catch 'em all!
|-
!{{flagicon|Bavaria}}
| '''[[Zeitpyramide]]'''
| To celebrate the 1200th anniversary of a Bavarian town, one artist decided to stack concrete blocks for 1200 years. The next block is scheduled for 2033.
|-
!{{flagicon|Croatia}}
| '''[[Željava Air Base]]'''
| An abandoned air base, located on the border between [[Croatia]] and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], that's almost entirely underground.
|-
!{{flagicon|France}}
| '''[[Zone rouge]]'''
| A series of areas in northeastern France that were so devastated by [[unexploded ordnance]] and toxins during [[World War I]] that they remain uninhabitable a century later.
|}

===Latin America and the Caribbean===
[[File:Lençóis Maranhenses 2018.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Lençóis Maranhenses National Park|A desert with water in it. Or is it a lagoon with a desert in it?]] Hmmmm...]]
[[Image:Festa-confederada-brasil-estados-unidos-santa-bárbara-doeste.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Americana, São Paulo]].]]
[[File:Plymouth Montserrat Heli.jpg|thumb|150px|Capital status + no people = [[Plymouth, Montserrat]]!]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!{{flagicon|São Paulo}}
|'''[[Americana, São Paulo]]'''
| A town in Brazil founded by [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] farmers and soldiers in the aftermath of the [[American Civil War]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Quintana Roo}}
| '''[[Cancún Underwater Museum]]'''
| A place where works of art are kept several metres beneath sea level.
|-
!{{flagicon|Rio Grande do Sul}}
| '''[[Cândido Godói]]'''
| A Brazilian town full of Germans that produces five times as many twins as the national average; these two facts combined to create theories that [[Josef Mengele]] had conducted experiments there.
|-
!{{flagicon|Rio Grande do Norte}}
| '''[[Cashew of Pirangi]]'''
| Seventy times larger than an average cashew tree, this tree covers approximately two acres of land by itself.
|-
!{{flagicon|Michoacán}}
| '''[[Cherán]]'''
| A Mexican town where the residents decided to abolish their own local government and police force in 2011 due to rampant corruption and ties to organized crime. They don't appear to have any regrets.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ecuador}}
| '''[[Ciudad Mitad del Mundo]]'''
| This park marking the equator in the country named after it was just a bit off when it was built.
|-
!{{flagicon|Chile}}
| '''[[Colonia Dignidad]]'''
| A rural community in Chile that has a story that not even the most insane writer could think of.  
|-
!{{flagicon|Colombia}}<br />{{flagicon|Panama}}
| '''[[Darién Gap]]'''
| This journey is impossible with the modes you have selected.
|-
!{{flagicon|French Guiana}}
| '''[[Devil's Island]]'''
| A notorious [[penal colony]] off the coast of [[French Guiana]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Cuba}}
| '''[[Ernst Thälmann Island]]'''
| An island off the coast of [[Cuba]] that was (sort of) ceded to East Germany and thus (sort of) remains part of East Germany, which doesn't exist anymore (sort of).
|-
!{{flagicon|Espírito Santo}}
| '''[[Guarapari]]'''
| A Brazilian town with beaches that are naturally radioactive.
|-
!{{flagicon|Pará}}
| '''[[Fordlândia]]'''
| [[Henry Ford|The man himself]] was not without his ''abject'' failures in Brazil.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}<br />{{flagicon|Baja California}}
|'''[[Friendship Park (San Diego–Tijuana)]]'''
| Where people can shake hands and interact across the [[Mexico–United States border]]. 
|-
!{{flagicon|Colombia}}
| '''[[Hacienda Nápoles]]'''
| The luxurious estate of the deceased drug lord [[Pablo Escobar]], from which an invasive hippopotamus population spread in Colombia.
|-
!{{flagicon|Venezuela}}
| '''[[Heladería Coromoto]]'''
| Held the world record for most ice cream flavors served, including chili, garlic, crab, macaroni and cheese, egg, beef, and many alcoholic flavors.
|-
!{{flagicon|Misiones}}
| '''[[Isla Apipé]]'''
| An Argentine island in the [[Paraná River]] surrounded by Paraguayan waters.
|-
!{{flagicon|Mexico City}}
| '''[[Island of the Dolls]]'''
| Located in [[Mexico City]], this is an island full of broken and deteriorated dolls of various styles and colors, originally placed by the former owner of the island.
|-
!{{flagicon|Cuba}}
| '''[[John Lennon Park]]'''
| A park with a statue of [[John Lennon]], in a country that used to ban his music in the 60s as it was a [[Western bloc]] cultural import. Also noteworthy for the fact that his statue doesn't normally wear glasses, as the glasses on the statue keep getting removed or vandalized, although the park now has a security guard whose job is to hang around near the statue and give him a pair of glasses upon request.
|-
!{{flagicon|Maranhão}}
| '''[[Lençóis Maranhenses National Park]]'''
| Wait, deserts don't seasonally flood. They just don't. Or do they?
|-
!{{flagicon|Chile}}
| '''[[Mano del Desierto]]'''
| A massive sculpture of a hand rising from the middle of the [[Atacama Desert]], meant to symbolize human vulnerability and oppression.
|-
!{{flagicon|Peru}}
| '''[[Nazca lines]]'''
| A line museum, exhibited outdoors in southern [[Peru]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Buenos Aires Province}}
| '''[[El Ojo]]'''
| An almost perfectly circular, constantly rotating island in the marshes of Argentina. Its name is Spanish for "The Eye".
|-
!{{flagicon|Michoacán}}
| '''[[Parícutin]]'''
| A volcano that suddenly erupted out of a farmer's cornfield.
|-
!{{flagicon|Rio de Janeiro}}
| '''[[Penedo, Itatiaia]]'''
| A Finnish resort town... in the middle of Brazil.
|-
!{{flagicon|Bahamas}}
| '''[[Pig Beach]]'''
| A place where you can swim with pigs.
|-
!{{flagicon|Guatemala}}
| '''[[Pizza Pacaya]]'''
| While many would run from an active volcano, one Guatemalan chef turned one into his own personal kitchen.
|-
!{{flagicon|Montserrat}}
| '''[[Plymouth, Montserrat]]'''
| A national capital with zero population, as it was abandoned due to a volcanic eruption.
|-
!{{flagicon|Paraguay}}
| '''[[Presidente Hayes Department]]'''
| What happens when [[Rutherford B. Hayes|a U.S. President]] is vastly more famous in a South American country than in the actual United States.
|-
!{{flagicon|Tamaulipas}}
| '''[[Río Rico, Tamaulipas]]'''
| A city that was ceded by the United States to Mexico in 1977 due to an earlier diversion of the [[Rio Grande]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Colombia}}
| '''[[Santa Cruz del Islote]]'''
| A tiny artificial island off the coast of Colombia that is said to be the most crowded island on Earth, with its own school, restaurant and other amenities, but without any crime nor police.
|-
!{{flagicon|Quintana Roo}}
| '''[[Spiral Island]]'''
| An artificial island, now destroyed, built from thousands of empty floating plastic bottles.
|-
!{{flagicon|Peru}}
| '''[[Vinicunca]]'''
| Also known as Montaña Arcoíris (Rainbow Mountain), different minerals in the soil of this mountain made it look truly unique.
|-
!{{flagicon|Chubut}}
| '''[[Y Wladfa]]'''
| A group of settlements in Argentine Patagonia home to the largest Welsh-speaking population outside of the British Isles, and the location of the [[Patagonian Welsh]] dialect.
|-
!{{flagicon|Bolivia}}
| '''[[Yungas Road]]'''
| An incredibly deadly mountainside road in Bolivia, only 3 meters wide in places and with no guardrails.
|}

===North America===
[[File:Durham--Gregson Street Guillotine 01.jpg|thumb|150px|[[11 foot 8+8 bridge|This bridge]] is a bit low, isn't it?]]
[[File:33 thomas st.jpg|thumb|150px|Oh no, this [[33 Thomas Street|windowless skyscraper]] is definitely not a massive surveillance centre!]]
[[File:Florence-yall.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Florence Y'all Water Tower|"That says "MALL"... doesn't it...?"]]]]
[[File: California island Vinckeboons5.jpg|thumb|150px|When [[Island of California|California hadn't quite joined the United States]].]]
[[File:Thousand Islands single house.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Just Room Enough Island|"Are you sure you want to build here?"]]]]
[[File:London Bridge, Lake Havasu City, Arizona (3227888290).jpg|thumb|150px|[[London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)|Wait a minute...This isn't the River Thames...]]]]
[[File:Koukdjuak 1 2002-08-24.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Nettilling Lake|This lake]] hides many islands. And lakes in those islands. And islands in those lakes.]]
[[File:Sam-Kee-Building-width.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sam Kee Building|It's about reaching out, closing up the distance]].]]
[[File:Aquarius exterior (whole).jpg|thumb|150px|[[Aquarius Reef Base|A laboratory beneath the waves.]]]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!{{flagicon|North Carolina}}
|'''[[Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass|11 foot 8+8 Bridge]]'''
| Also known has the "Can Opener", this is a bridge that slices the roof off of trucks that have fallen victim to it.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
|'''[[33 Thomas Street]]'''
| A windowless skyscraper in New York and suspected NSA mass surveillance hub. Not suspicious at all.
|-
!{{flagicon|Arizona}}
| '''[[Sentinel Peak (Arizona)|A Mountain]]'''
| Also known as Sentinel Peak, this hill in [[Tucson, Arizona]] literally has a big letter "A" on it.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Agloe, New York]]'''
| A fictional town in [[New York (state)|New York]]. Originally a [[phantom settlement]], created as a [[copyright trap]] for a mapmaker, that ended up developing into an actual landmark.
|-
!{{flagicon|South Carolina}}
|'''[[Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake]]'''
| Supposedly named after the treatment center nearby.
|-
!{{flagicon|Alaska}}
| '''[[Another River]]'''
| What happens when a group of geologists have become quite bored of discovering and naming rivers.
|-
!{{flagicon|Washington}}
|'''[[Aroma of Tacoma]]'''
| "[[Star Wars (film)|What an incredible ''smell'' you've discovered]]" could have been this Washington city's motto.
|-
!{{flagicon|Florida}}
|'''[[Aquarius Reef Base]]'''
|A real-live underwater laboratory.
|-
!{{flagicon|Alberta}}
| '''[[Badlands Guardian]]'''
| A natural topographic feature in Alberta, Canada, which, when viewed from above, looks remarkably like a human wearing a [[First nations|Native American]] headdress and earbuds.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ohio}}
| '''[[Beatosu and Goblu]]'''
| Two non-existent towns that appeared on [[Michigan]]'s official highway map as a reference to the [[University of Michigan]] and its rival, [[Ohio State University]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Rhode Island}}
| '''[[Big Blue Bug]]'''
| Officially named Nibbles Woodaway, this 58-foot long termite overlooking [[Interstate 95 in Rhode Island|I-95]] is a Providence landmark and is claimed to be the world's largest artificial bug.
|-
!{{flagicon|Colorado}}
| '''[[Bishop Castle]]'''
| A rocky castle in the Rocky Mountains! This fire-breathing construction project seems to endlessly... drag on.
|-
!{{flagicon|Massachusetts}}
| '''[[Boston Citgo sign]]'''
| This advertisement for an oil company was placed in the perfect spot for it to become a recognizable landmark of the Boston skyline.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Borscht Belt]]'''
| For those who love borscht and find the [[Bible Belt]] and [[Rust Belt]] too boring.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}
|  '''[[Bubblegum Alley]]'''
| 70 feet of alleyway with its walls covered in used chewing gum.
|-
!{{flagicon|Illinois}}
| '''[[Bubbly Creek]]'''
| The branch of the [[Chicago River]] that was so contaminated with blood from the [[Union Stock Yards|Stock Yards]] that it gained this appetizing moniker.
|-
!{{flagicon|Nevada}}
| '''[[Bullfrog County, Nevada]]'''
| A former county in Nevada established around a mountain which was to become a radioactive waste disposal site. As of 2022, it is the only uninhabited county-equivalent to ever be created in the United States.
|-
!{{flagicon|Massachusetts}}
| '''[[Busta Rhymes Island]]'''
| Otherwise unnamed island because it had "rope-swinging, blueberries, and ... stuff Busta would enjoy."
|-
!{{flagicon|Quebec}}<br />{{flagicon|Vermont}}
| '''[[Canusa Street]]'''
| A road that's in both [[Canada]] and [[United States|USA]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Washington}}
|  {{icon|GA}} '''[[Capitol Hill mystery soda machine]]'''
| A machine that offered rare drinks with nobody knowing who operated it. It was in operation from the 1990s to 2018, when it disappeared and a note was left saying: "Went for a walk".
|-
!{{flagicon|Illinois}}
| '''[[Casey, Illinois]]'''
| A town that's seemingly almost entirely populated by oversized models of things.
|-
!{{flagicon|Colorado}}
| '''[[Cat Girl Manor]]'''
| A manor described as "the [[Playboy Mansion]] of the [[animal roleplay|kitten play]] community".
|-
!{{flagicon|Pennsylvania}}
| '''[[Centralia, Pennsylvania]]'''
| A town that's been on fire since 1962.
|-
!{{flagicon|New Jersey}}
| '''[[Clinton Road (New Jersey)]]'''
| In addition to having the longest traffic light in the country, the road is also notorious for reported occurrences of paranormal activity.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Colma, California]]'''
| A town where the dead outnumber the living by 1000 to 1. Their motto is, ironically, "It's great to be alive in Colma".
|-
!{{flagicon|Florida}}
| '''[[Conch Republic]]'''
| As a protest against the actions by the [[United States federal government]], [[Key West, Florida|Key West]] in [[Florida]] [[Secession|seceded]] from and then declared war on the United States, surrendered one minute later and then applied for $1 billion in foreign aid.
|-
!{{flagicon|Delaware}}
|'''[[Corporation Trust Center]]'''
|A small single-story building where over 285,000 companies, or over 15% of all companies in the United States, are legally based.
|-
!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| '''[[Crash at Crush|Crush, Texas]]'''
| A temporary "city" established as the site of an 1896 publicity stunt, a staged train wreck. The wreck unexpectedly caused two deaths and numerous injuries among spectators.
|-
!{{flagicon|South Dakota}}
| '''[[Crazy Horse Memorial]]'''
| The Native American answer to Mount Rushmore, started in 1948 and still nowhere near completed.
|-
!{{flagicon|Ohio}}
| '''[[Cuyahoga River]]'''
| Environmentalism in the United States essentially started because a river in [[Cleveland]] kept on catching fire.
|-
!{{flagicon|Washington, D.C.}}
| '''[[Dave Thomas Circle]]'''
| A six-way intersection in Northeast D.C. with a [[Wendy's]] located in the middle until 2021. The site of numerous traffic fatalities, it's currently being converted into a city park.
|-
!{{flagicon|Delaware}}
| '''[[Delaware Wedge]]'''
| It's harder than you think to construct the state of [[Delaware]] with a ruler and compass.
|-
!{{flagicon|Maine}}
| '''[[Desert of Maine]]'''
| A 20-acre patch of sand right in the middle of the most forested state in the U.S.
|-
!{{flagicon|Illinois}}
| '''[[Dixie Square Mall]]'''
| A [[shopping mall]] that stood abandoned for over twice as long as it was in business until it was finally demolished in 2012. It was featured in the 1980 film ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]'' and became a popular target for [[urban explorer]]s.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Donald J. Trump State Park]]'''
| The most tremendous, fantastic, amazing state park you've ever seen. The media wants to say it has poor upkeep, it should be renamed, that it's not even a real state park; but they're all liars and very bad people, believe me. (See also the exhaustive [[list of things named after Donald Trump]].)
|-
!{{flagicon|Minnesota}}
| '''[[Dorset, Minnesota]]'''
| A town that, on multiple occasions, has had a child as their "mayor".
|-
!{{flagicon|British Columbia}}
| '''[[Dude Chilling Park]]'''
| Originally a sign placed in a [[Vancouver]] park as a prank, now officially recognized public art.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[eBART]]'''
| An extension of the [[Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]] system that, despite functioning as its own railway line and is powered by unique diesel trains, is officially shown as an extension of the Yellow Line.
|-
!{{flagicon|Washington, D.C.}}
| '''[[Exorcist steps]]'''
| A set of steps in 36th Street most famous for having the character of [[Damien Karras|Father Karras]] fall to his death after being possessed.
|-
!{{flagicon|Iowa}}
| '''[[Fenelon Place Elevator]]'''
| The shortest and steepest railroad in the world, (supposedly) located in a town of around 60,000 people.
|-
!{{flagicon|Kentucky}}
| '''[[Florence Y'all Water Tower]]'''
| A Northern Kentucky town's unique "welcome" sign.
|-
!{{flagicon|Virginia}}
| '''[[Foamhenge]]'''
| An exact recreation of [[Stonehenge]] made entirely out of styrofoam. 
|-
!{{flagicon|South Dakota}}
| '''[[Gann Valley, South Dakota]]'''
| The county seat of [[Buffalo County, South Dakota]], despite nearby [[Fort Thompson, South Dakota|Fort Thompson]] having a population more than 120 times larger than Gann Valley.
|-
!{{flagicon|Wyoming}}
|'''[[Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport]]'''
| Consists entirely of a deeply rutted unmanned strip of soil/gravel and a windsock.
|-
!{{flagicon|Washington}}
|'''[[Gum Wall]]'''
| A brick wall in Seattle burdened by chewing gum. Cleaned in 2015, only to be turned into a memorial for [[November 2015 Paris attacks|Paris]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Quebec}}
| '''[[Habitat 67]]'''
| A futuristic residential complex built in the 1960s that resembles a mass of cuboids haphazardly balanced on top of each other.
|-
!{{flagicon|Canada}}{{flagicon|Greenland}}
| '''[[Hans Island]]'''
| A deserted Arctic island fought over by Canada and the [[Kingdom of Denmark]] for decades. The 2022 settlement created a land border between a North American and a European country.
|-
!{{flagicon|Maine}}
| '''[[Hawaii 2]]'''
| A quaint island in [[Maine]] purchased by [[Cards Against Humanity]] in 2014.
|-
!{{flagicon|Alberta}}
| '''[[Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump]]'''
| Life lesson: if you see hunters [[Buffalo jump|chasing buffalo off a cliff]], don't stand at the bottom.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Hess triangle]]'''
| This used to be part of a bigger plot of land but a road destroyed it but the planners couldn't plan correctly so it left this piece of land.
|-
!{{flagicon|Florida}}
| '''[[Holy Land Experience]]'''
| A defunct Christian theme park built in [[Orlando, Florida]] where you could meet Jesus Christ instead of [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]]. It has also been accused of trying to convert Jewish visitors. Also a great [[Helluva Boss|Loo Loo Land]] alternative.
|-
!{{flagicon|Tennessee}}
| '''[[Horace Burgess's Treehouse]]'''
| A tree house built by a minister who claimed to have received a vision from God. God apparently didn't like it, since it burnt down.
|-
!{{flagicon|Indiana}}
| '''[[Indianapolis Catacombs]]'''
| Despite the name, never used as a burial place.
|-
!{{flagicon|Wyoming}}
| '''[[Interstate 180 (Wyoming)]]'''
| An [[Interstate Highway System|Interstate Highway]] that isn't really a freeway at all.
|-
!{{flagicon|Arizona}}
| '''[[Interstate 19]]'''
| The only U.S. highway marked in [[International System of Units|SI]] units, a relic of a historical push for [[metrication in the United States|metrication]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Iowa}}
| '''[[Iowa 80]]'''
| The world's largest [[truck stop]]; it even comes with a movie theater, a dentist, and a chiropractor.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Island of California]]'''
| The third-largest US state was formerly an island{{spnd}}at least on paper.
|-
!{{flagicon|Nevada}}
| '''[[Jackass Flats]]'''
| The aptly named test site for the world's first and only [[Project Rover|nuclear-powered rocket engines]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Rhode Island}}
| '''[[Jerimoth Hill]]'''
| The highest natural point in [[Rhode Island]]. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its {{convert|812|ft|adj=on}} height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby.
|-
!{{flagicon|Georgia (U.S. state)}}
| '''[[Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue]]'''
| A very strange monument to [[Jimmy Carter|the 39th president]], who reportedly hated it during his lifetime.
|-
!{{flagicon|Connecticut}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant]]'''
| A sewage plant in [[Danbury, Connecticut]] named after John Oliver after he satirically insulted the city on ''[[Last Week Tonight with John Oliver|Last Week Tonight]]''.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Joker Stairs]]'''
| [[Joker (2019 film)|We live in a society]] where a movie can make a star out of a flight of stairs.
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Just Room Enough Island]]'''
| This island is about one-thirteenth of an acre in size but that didn't stop the aptly named Sizeland family from building a house on it.
|-
!{{flagicon|Kentucky}}
| '''[[Kentucky Bend]]'''
| A part of [[Kentucky]] that is cut off from the rest of the state by [[Missouri]], [[Tennessee]], and the [[Mississippi River]].
|-
!{{flagicon|North Dakota}}
| '''[[KRDK-TV mast]]'''
| Would you expect the [[List of tallest structures|seventh-tallest structure in the world]] to be a TV station transmitter? Standing at 2,060 ft (627.8 m), alas it is.
|-
!{{flagicon|Louisiana}}
|'''[[Lake Peigneur]]'''
| A 10-foot-deep swimming lake at one time, it was turned into the deepest lake in Louisiana thanks to a salt mining accident.
|-
!{{flagicon|Newfoundland and Labrador}}
|'''[[Landsat Island]]'''
| A lonesome island with a frankly humorous tale.
|-
!{{flagicon|Massachusetts}}
| '''[[Lizzie Borden House]]'''
| The location of one of the most famous ax murders in history, which was turned into a B&B in 1996. According to the building's former owner, the room where Abby Borden was murdered is its "most requested room."
|-
!{{flagicon|Alberta}}<br/>{{flagicon|Saskatchewan}}
| '''[[Lloydminster]]'''
| Is it in Alberta or in Saskatchewan? Why not both?
|-
!{{flagicon|Arizona}}
| '''[[London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)|London Bridge]]'''
| An over century year old authentic English bridge...that now resides in the middle of the desert.
|-
!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| '''[[Loving County, Texas]]'''
| The least populated county in the United States, with only 64 residents.
|-
!{{flagicon|Michigan}}
| {{icon|FA}} '''[[M-185 (Michigan highway)]]'''
| The only state highway in the country that bans motor vehicles. It's also the only state highway to not have an accident until 2005.
|-
!{{flagicon|New Jersey}}
| '''[[Mary Ellis grave]]'''
| A grave that found itself in the middle of a movie theater parking lot.
|-
!{{flagicon|Tennessee}}
| '''[[Memphis Pyramid]]'''
| The tenth-largest pyramid in the world, located in Memphis, Tennessee, and home to a [[Bass Pro Shops]] megastore.
|-
!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| '''[[Mexia Supermarket]]'''
| Local supermarket becomes a phsyical manifestation of rot and decay after the owners forgot to take out all the food before closing.
|-
!{{flagicon|Michigan}}
| '''[[Michigan left]]'''
| Directions are more complicated in Michigan.
|-
!{{flagicon|Florida}}
|'''[[Mickey pylon]]'''
| A powerline pylon with a shape reminiscent of a certain fictional rodent.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Mojave phone booth]]'''
| A public phone booth that stood for several decades in the middle of a desert, miles away from any roads or other structures.
|-
!{{flagicon|Idaho}}
| '''[[Mountain Home Air Force Base]]'''
| A Singaporean air force base in Idaho.
|-
!{{flagicon|Utah}}
|'''[[Mollie's Nipple]]'''
| The name of multiple places in Utah... including at least one [[potty humor|butte]].
|-
!{{flagicon|Nebraska}}
| '''[[Monowi, Nebraska|Monowi]]'''
| A village in Nebraska with a population of one. Hi, Elsie!
|-
!{{flagicon|Maryland}}
| '''[[Mr. Trash Wheel]]'''
| A trash interceptor with giant googly eyes that patrols the [[Inner Harbor|Baltimore Inner Harbor]], consuming trash. Has its own Instagram page.
|-
!{{flagicon|Georgia (U.S. state)}}
| '''[[Murder Kroger]]'''
| A supermarket with a dark story.
|-
!{{flagicon|Nevada}}
| '''[[Nataqua Territory]]'''
| A failed U.S. territory that was, quite literally, beside itself.
|-
!{{flagicon|Wisconsin}}
| '''[[National Mustard Museum]]'''
| Collecting and chronicling the common condiment.
|-
!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[National Raisin Reserve]]'''
| Created after World War II to control raisin prices. Run by the Raisin Administrative Committee, of course.
|-
!{{flagicon|Oregon}}
| '''[[Ned Flanders Crossing]]'''
| A bridge over [[Interstate 405 (Oregon)|Interstate 405]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], which was originally called ''Flanders Crossing'', but was renamed after a fictional character himself named after the road.
|-
!{{flagicon|Nunavut}}
| '''[[Nettilling Lake]]'''
| Located on [[Baffin Island]], Nunavut, Canada. It's [[Lake island#Islands within lakes recursively|the largest lake on an island and also contains the largest lake on an island on a lake on an island, which in turn contains the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island]].
|-
!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[New York–Dublin Portal]]'''
| An art exhibit visually connecting the streets of the two cities that was temporarily shut down after multiple instances of flashing, profanities, and showcasing images of the [[September 11 attacks]].
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!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Nitt Witt Ridge]]'''
| A house in [[California]], built out of beer cans, abalone shells, car parts, and other garbage previously tossed out by local residents, is now a historic landmark.
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!{{flagicon|Greenland}}
| '''[[Northeast Greenland National Park]]'''
| The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent human population.
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!{{flagicon|Minnesota}}
| '''[[Northwest Angle]]'''
| This little spoke jutting out of northern Minnesota was created as the result of a surveying error, and its land is completely cut off from the rest of the U.S. by the [[Lake of the Woods]].
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!{{flagicon|Washington}}
| '''[[Nutty Narrows Bridge]]'''
| A grand [[suspension bridge]] solely used by squirrels trying not to get squashed by the vehicles below.
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!{{flagicon|New Hampshire}}
| '''[[Old Man of the Mountain]]'''
| A rock formation in northern New Hampshire resembling the side profile of a person. Collapsed in 2003, but is immortalized on the state's license plates, highway signs and state quarter.
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!{{flagicon|Illinois}}
| '''[[Park No. 474]]'''
| To meet funding requirements, the Illinois Institute of Technology deeded a 6-by-9-foot granite slab to the city of Chicago, creating the smallest park in Illinois, which has no natural features.
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!{{flagicon|Ohio}}
| '''[[Pee Pee Creek]]'''
| Not named for the outcome of a prodigious night out drinking
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!{{flagicon|Kentucky}}
| '''[[Perry County, Kentucky|Perry County]]'''
| Not so unusual, until you look at the city names within the county: [[Hazard, Kentucky|Hazard]], [[Blue Diamond, Kentucky|Blue Diamond]], [[Jeff, Kentucky|Jeff]], [[Doorway, Kentucky|Doorway]], [[Upper Squabble, Kentucky|Upper Squabble]], [[Gays Creek, Kentucky|Gays Creek]], [[Happy, Kentucky|Happy]] (and [[Happy Valley, Kentucky|Happy Valley]]), [[Typo, Kentucky|Typo]], [[Mud Lick, Kentucky|Mud Lick]], [[Hurricane, Kentucky|Hurricane]], and [[Perry County, Kentucky#Communities|much, much, MUCH, much more!!!]]
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!{{flagicon|Ontario}}
| '''[[Peter Camani]]'''
| A (now retired) Canadian art teacher who built a massive complex of sculptures of screaming faces on his property in his spare time, and converted his house into a castle with a turret of a screaming face.
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!{{flagicon|Washington}}
| '''[[Point Roberts, Washington]]'''
| When defining international boundaries, sometimes a straight line isn't the best solution.
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!{{flagicon|Manitoba}}
| '''[[Polar bear jail|Polar Bear Holding Facility]]'''
| A prison for [[polar bear]]s.
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!{{flagicon|Arizona}}
| '''[[Poozeum]]'''
| A museum dedicated to [[coprolites]].
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!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| '''[[Prada Marfa|Prada Marfa, Texas]]'''
| For your luxury shopping bug, a Prada store in the desert.
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!{{flagicon|Kentucky}}
| '''[[Rabbit Hash, Kentucky]]'''
| A town whose mayors, since 1998, have all been dogs.
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!{{flagicon|Illinois}}
| '''[[Raising of Chicago]]'''
| During the 1850s, the city was raised on jacks, building by building.
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!{{flagicon|Michigan}}
| '''[[Rainbow Farm]]'''
| The only place where [[Libertarianism|gay married couples could guard their marijuana plants with guns]]. Notably visited by [[Merle Haggard]] and [[Tommy Chong]].
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!{{flagicon|New Hampshire}}
| '''[[Republic of Indian Stream]]'''
| An area of land in northern [[New Hampshire]] that was an independent country from 1832 to 1835.
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!{{flagicon|Nevada}}
| '''[[Republic of Molossia]]'''
| A 34-person micronation in [[Nevada]] which takes the meaning of the phrase "[[Castle Doctrine in the United States|a man's home is his castle]]" to new extremes.
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!{{flagicon|Illinois}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Rock N Roll McDonald's]]'''
| A rock 'n roll-themed [[McDonald's]] restaurant located in Chicago, famous for being the subject of a song by outsider musician [[Wesley Willis]].
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!{{flagicon|Pennsylvania}}
| '''[[Rocky Steps]]'''
| Thanks to their appearance in [[Rocky|a certain movie]], the steps leading up to the main entrance of the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] is as popular of a tourist attraction as the museum itself.
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!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Rough and Ready, California]]'''
| This mining town seceded from the Union in 1850, but came back three months later because they realised they couldn't celebrate Independence Day.
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!{{flagicon|Quebec}}
| '''[[Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!|Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec]]'''
| A very serious town in [[Quebec]]'s [[Bas-Saint-Laurent]] region that happens to have the most exclamation marks of any known place name. 
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!{{flagicon|British Columbia}}
| '''[[Sam Kee Building]]'''
| Known as the world's narrowest commercial building.
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!{{flagicon|Arizona}}
|'''[[Santa Claus, Arizona]]'''
| In [[Mohave County]], visit an abandoned tourist trap deep in the desert where Santa Claus, of all people, allegedly resides!
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!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Slab City, California]]'''
| A massive off-the-grid trailer park on a former military base in the [[Sonoran Desert]], that became a large-scale alternative community of misfits and wanderers that has persisted for decades, complete with various displays of colourful experimental sculptures made from whatever the residents can get their hands on.
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!{{flagicon|Pennsylvania}}
| '''[[S.N.P.J., Pennsylvania]]'''
| A municipality consisting solely of a [[Slovenia]]n fraternity's recreation center, established (in part) to get around [[Alcohol laws of Pennsylvania|liquor laws]].
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!{{flagicon|Tennessee}}
| '''[[State of Franklin]]'''
| A proposed state in [[Eastern Tennessee]] that tried its hand at independence and fell into debt to [[Spanish Empire|Spain]].
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!{{flagicon|Tennessee}}
| '''[[State of Scott]]'''
| Scott County in northern [[Tennessee]] seceded and formed its own state in opposition to Tennessee joining the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. It remained this way for over a century until it rejoined Tennessee in 1986.

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!{{flagicon|Washington}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[Statue of Lenin (Seattle)]]'''
| How a statue of [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] made its way from [[Czechoslovakia]] to [[Fremont, Seattle|Seattle's Fremont neighborhood]].
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!{{flagicon|Kansas}}
| '''[[Stull, Kansas#Legend of Stull Cemetery|Legend of Stull Cemetary]]
| A small town's cemetery became infamous after reports that the [[Devil]] shows up there on Halloween and the spring equinox, and it guards the [[Gates of Hell|seven gates to Hell]]. Multiple people have been arrested trying to find out if this is true.
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!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| '''[[Texas State Highway 165]]'''
| The only state highway in the country specifically designated to serve [[Texas State Cemetery|a cemetery]]...and nothing more. It's also the only state highway in the country to be partially closed every night.
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!{{flagicon|West Virginia}}
| '''[[The Greenbrier]]'''
| A luxury resort that, for three decades, housed an emergency bunker for Congress to work from if a nuclear war broke out. And no, the bunker isn't available to rent.
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!{{flagicon|Nova Scotia}}
| '''[[Porters Lake, Nova Scotia#This Street, That Street, and The Other Street|This Street, That Street, and The Other Street]]
| Can cause a lot of trouble when telling [[Uber]] drivers what street you live at.
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!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| '''[[Toadsuck, Texas]]'''
| A fake town made up by [[William H. Murray|a presidential candidate]] after having too much to drink one night.
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!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[Track 61 (New York City)]]'''
| A secret train platform located below the [[Waldorf Astoria New York]] designed for use by U.S. Presidents when they would visit the hotel.
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!{{flagicon|New Mexico}}
| '''[[Truth or Consequences, New Mexico]]'''
| A New Mexico town that chose to rename itself after the ''[[Truth or Consequences]]'' game show in 1950, then never bothered changing back.
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!{{flagicon|New York}}
| '''[[U Thant Island]]'''
| An island in the [[East River]] with a surprisingly in-depth history for only being {{convert|2000|sqft}} in area.
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!{{flagicon|Pennsylvania}}
| '''[[U.S. Route 19 Truck (Pittsburgh)]]'''
| A road in Pittsburgh that features a number of [[Concurrency (road)#Wrong-way concurrency|wrong way concurrencies]], including one with itself.
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!{{flagicon|West Virginia}}
| '''[[Vulcan Bridge]]'''
| A bridge in rural West Virginia whose repairs were almost funded by the [[Soviet Union]] after a local mayor, tired of the West Virginia state government ignoring his requests for funding, reached out across the Iron Curtain.
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!{{flagicon|Newfoundland and Labrador}}
| '''[[Weather Station Kurt]]'''
| That time when [[Nazi Germany|the Nazis]] landed in North America.
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!{{flagicon|Alaska}}
| '''[[Whittier, Alaska]]'''
| A city in Alaska where (almost) all of its residents live in one building: [[Begich Towers]].
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!{{flagicon|California}}
| '''[[Winchester Mystery House]]'''
| A house believed to be haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed by [[Winchester rifle]]s.
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!{{flagicon|Texas}}
| {{icon|GA}} '''[[World's littlest skyscraper]]'''
| The result of a [[fraud]]ulent investment scheme, it's a four-story brick building constructed in 1920 in downtown [[Wichita Falls, Texas|Wichita Falls]], [[Texas]] that has only one room on each of its four floors.
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!{{flagicon|Michigan}}
| '''[[Zilwaukee, Michigan]]'''
|  Just TRY to convince [[spellcheck]] you're not crazy.
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!{{flagicon|Idaho}}
| '''[[Zone of Death (Yellowstone)|Zone of Death]]'''
| The part of [[Yellowstone National Park]] in Idaho, where any crime can technically be committed without punishment – but don't tempt fate!
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===Oceania===
[[File:Baldwinstreet.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Baldwin Street, Dunedin]].]]
[[File:Coober Pedy Warning sign 02427.jpg|thumb|150px|Watch your step around [[Coober Pedy]].]]
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!{{flagicon|American Samoa}}
| '''[[American Samoa]]'''
| Despite having a functional legislature (the ''[[American Samoa Fono|Fono]]'') and a population of 46,366, American Samoa is considered an 'unincorporated unorganized' territory. It is also the only U.S. territory where people are not automatically born citizens, despite much of the population being involved in the military.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Baldwin Street]]'''
| A short suburban road in [[Dunedin]], New Zealand, reputedly the world's steepest street.
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!{{flagicon|New South Wales}}
| '''[[Ball's Pyramid]]'''
| A nearly {{convert|600|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall}} stone stack in the middle of the ocean. Also home to [[Dryococelus|one of the rarest insects]] on Earth.
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!{{flagicon|Western Australia}}
| '''[[Banjawarn Station]]'''
| Did [[Aum Shinrikyo|a Japanese apocalypse cult]] test a nuke in the middle of rural Australia?
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!{{flagicon|Western Australia}}
| '''[[Bayswater Subway]]'''
| Bridge in [[Perth]] that has been hit by trucks 50 times between 2014 and 2020.
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!{{flagicon|New South Wales}}
| '''[[Burning Mountain]]'''
| A straightforwardly named mountain that has been on fire for over 6000 years.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Cardrona Bra Fence]]'''
| An eccentric tourist attraction in New Zealand.
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!{{flagicon|South Australia}}
|'''[[Coober Pedy]]'''
| A mining town where most of the residents live underground. You can also check out their opal supply and/or play glow-in-the-dark golf at night!
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!{{flagicon|Australian Capital Territory}}
|{{icon|GA}} '''[[Concrete bus shelters in Canberra]]'''
| These [[Brutalist architecture|brutalist]] cylindrical bus shelters are an icon of Australia's capital city.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
|'''[[Egmont National Park]]'''
| This national park's boundaries created a circular forest.
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!{{flagicon|Western Australia}}
| '''[[Horizontal Falls]]'''
| This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land. 
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Hundertwasser Toilets]]'''
| Why the town of [[Kawakawa, New Zealand|Kawakawa]] is the world's best place for a rest stop.
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!{{flagicon|Tonga}}
|'''[[Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai]]'''
| An island that was created in 2015 after a volcano erupted between two islands and connected them until another volcanic explosion in 2022 split them up again.
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!{{flagicon|Palau}}
|'''[[Jellyfish Lake]]'''
| A lake where jellyfish have evolved without stingers due to a lack of predators.
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!{{flagicon|Jervis Bay Territory}}
| '''[[Jervis Bay Territory]]'''
| Briefly ceded to the [[Australian Capital Territory]] to give it access to the sea despite not bordering it at all.
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!{{flagicon|Hawaii}}
| '''[[Kalawao County, Hawaii]]'''
| The second-least populous county in the United States (after [[Loving County, Texas]]), with a population of 82 as of the 2020 census. Established as a leper colony in 1866, it occupies a peninsula on [[Molokai]] and is not connected by road to the rest of the island.
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!{{flagicon|United States Minor Outlying Islands}}
|'''[[Kingman Reef]]'''
| It's designated as its own US overseas territory despite having an area of only {{convert|0.03|km2|sqmi}} and being almost entirely underwater during low tide.
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!{{flagicon|Victoria}}
| '''[[Montague Street Bridge]]'''
| A bridge in [[Melbourne]] that has had so many trucks crash into and get stuck under it, the government used millions of dollars to install prevention measures (it did nothing).
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!{{flagicon|Victoria}}
| '''[[Mount Wycheproof]]'''
| Considered a mountain when only {{convert|43|m}} above surrounding terrain and {{convert|143|m}} above sea level. There are parts of Sydney which have a higher elevation and are not considered a mountain.
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!{{flagicon|New South Wales}}{{flagicon|Victoria}}
| '''[[Murray Valley Highway]]'''
| A {{convert|671|km|adj=on}} road that has a road route number of B400 for {{convert|668|km}} in the Victorian section and unmarked for {{convert|3|km}} in the New South Wales section making the Victorian road network not connected to the New South Wales Network in that area.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Nelson–Blenheim notional railway]]'''
| A road that was officially considered to be a railway by the New Zealand Government for 22 years.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[State Highway 78 (New Zealand)|New Zealand State Highway 78]]'''
| A road in [[Timaru]], New Zealand, that is designated a highway despite being only {{convert|900|m}} long.
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!{{flagicon|Palau}}
| '''[[Ngerulmud]]'''
| The only national capital with a permanent population of 0, as it entirely consists of government offices.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Ninety Mile Beach, New Zealand|Ninety Mile Beach]]'''
| A 55-mile beach.
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!{{flagicon|New South Wales}}
|'''[[Octopolis and Octlantis]]'''
| A pair of settlements built by octopuses, discovered on the seabed off the coast of the aforementioned [[Jervis Bay]].
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!{{flagicon|United States Minor Outlying Islands}}
|'''[[Palmyra Atoll]]'''
| The United States' only 'incorporated unorganized' territory, despite there being no government and virtually no permanent residents for the Constitution to apply to...
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!{{flagicon|Pitcairn Islands}}
|'''[[Pitcairn Islands]]'''
| A [[British Overseas Territory]] where the entire population is [[Seventh-day Adventist]] and descended from the mutineers from the {{HMS|Bounty}}. The entire population moved to [[Norfolk Island]] for three years in the 1850s and is currently at risk of going extinct due to the high number of emigrants. Also the site of a scandal where 13 men, almost a third of the islands' population, were convicted in a sex abuse scandal, giving the islands the highest rate of sex offenders in the world.
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!{{flagicon|Western Australia}}
| '''[[Pink Lake (Western Australia)|Pink Lake]]'''
| A lake that is naturally pink, but suddenly turned blue in 2010.
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!{{flagicon|Victoria}}
| '''{{AUshield|VIC|M1}} [[Princes Freeway|Princes Freeway (east)]]'''
| A freeway with houses, traffic lights, and a {{convert|60|km/h|adj=on}} limit in some areas. What are VicRoads thinking?
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!{{flagicon|Indonesia}}
| '''[[Puncak Jaya|Carstensz Pyramid]]'''
| The tallest mountain in [[Australasia]] is administrated by the Republic of Indonesia.
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!{{flagicon|New Caledonia}}
|'''[[Sandy Island, New Caledonia|Sandy Island]]'''
| An island which was shown on Google Maps satellite view until 2012 despite not existing.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[That Wānaka Tree]]'''
| A tree named after a hashtag on Instagram.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu|Taumata]]'''
| With a full name consisting of 85 characters, this hill may be [[List of long place names|the longest place name]] in the world.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Te Urewera]]'''
| A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below).
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!{{flagicon|Cook Islands}}
| '''[[Tuanaki]]'''
| The Cook Islands that never were.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
| '''[[Whanganui River]]'''
| A river in New Zealand that is legally a person.
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!{{flagicon|New South Wales}}
| '''[[Wedding Cake Rock]]'''
| A rock that looks exactly like a wedding cake.
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!{{flagicon|New Zealand}}
|'''[[Whangamōmona]]'''
| A township in New Zealand that also happens to be a self-declared republic, whose past presidents include a goat and a poodle.
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