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Recursive Places

What do you call a moon's moon?

What Do You Call a Moon's Moon?

The inexplicable delight of moon-moons, sub-islands, and other recursive places.

Sarah Laskow October 10, 2018

The Yucatán's Hidden 'Underwater River'

There's something fascinating happening at Angelita Cenote.

Michael Waters July 6, 2017

Sargasso

North Atlantic Ocean

Sargasso Sea

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

Busingen on the shore of the Rhine

Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany

Büsingen Enclave

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Melilla la Vieja Lighthouse

Melilla

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

The tripoint monument from Norway, Sweden and Finland (Treriksröset) in the lake "Goldajärvi" in Lapland Finland

geographic markers

10 Places Caught Up in Odd Border Disputes

The world's most bizarre cartographic feuds.

Meg Neal August 8, 2016

Leadenhall Market

Real-World Diagon Alley, the Original Tiki Bar, and Other Enticing New Atlas Locations

The most marvelous places we added during the week of August 1.

Meg Neal August 5, 2016

High-def satellite image of third order island

Sub-Sub-Sub Island on Victoria Island

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Underwater at Cenote Angelita

Chumkopó, Mexico

Cenote Angelita

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

Dashed line is an international border; Bangladeshi farmer in foreground

Panchagarh, Bangladesh

Dahala Khagrabari

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

Vulcan Point

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

Maruyama in Aogashima, Tokyo.

Aogashima, Japan

Aogashima Volcano

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

The brine pool's "shore" and surface ripples beneath the Gulf of Mexico.

Undersea Brine Lake

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.