Towns with strange features

keithclancy

I like to call this place Inceptionville (Country in a Country and Town within a Town)


Link

Theres a bar there, when I was sitting down having a beer I was in the Netherlands and when I went for a slash I went to Belgium.

Apparently you can also move your front door to change where you pay your taxes.

Anyone else know any strange ones ?

dd972

The Dutch are so tight (gierig), I'm surprised they let the Belgians have the piss

My name is URL

They must have been off their heads when drawing up those borders

Shryke

My hometown is deceptively shit. It lurks beneath a recent celtic tiger veneer, like a rapist in a Barney costume, glaring at you with its dead eyes.

galwayrush

Do local accents count?

MadsL

I live near Pietown. Its name comes from an early bakery for making dried-apple pies in the early 1920s. It is now famous for its pies.

I like pie.

KTRIC

I live in this city with really bad drug problem. The city council even put a monument to a hypodermic needle on the main street !!

Lapin

Beebe Plaine in Vermont USA has the border Canada running through it.

In one area homeowners on the US side can only access their houses by driving through Canada !

Slim_Bob

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.148133,88.762458&spn=0.01,0.01&t=m&q=26.148133,88.762458

An Indian enclave inside a Bangladeshi enclave, inside an Indian enclave, inside Bangladesh.

kneemos

Shryke wrote: »

My hometown is deceptively shit. It lurks beneath a recent celtic tiger veneer, like a rapist in a Barney costume, glaring at you with its dead eyes.

Sounds like something from a Stephen King novel.

Scruffles

how about botton in yorkshire-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botton,_North_Yorkshire
http://www.cvt.org.uk/botton

some years ago it even featured in a documentary called the strangest place in britain...or something like that.
personaly speaking,its everywhere else that is strange,living in a place full of likeminded people is normality.

Lapin

Portmeirion in Wales is another unique place.

My name is URL

Lapin wrote: »

Portmeirion in Wales is another unique place.

Beautiful place that

retalivity

not a town so much but Market Island has possibly the strangest international border on a tiny island...

looksee

Zambia is surrounded by eight countries, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Angola and Congo. As far as I remember it was in separate conflict with all these countries to some extent during 1968/69 and probably since. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zambiamap.png

im invisible

Slim_Bob wrote: »

An Indian enclave inside a Bangladeshi enclave, inside an Indian enclave, inside Bangladesh.

ok, not a town, but inspired by this, Vulcan Point Island
an island, in a lake, on an island, in a lake, on an island, in the ocean

LivelineDipso

There is so much inbreeding in my town the main street is called The Blvd of Broken Genes.

Meangadh

This is probably one of the most unique places I've ever been- best way to get around is by foot or train, cars don't really get around easily here. Plus you have to be careful when you go, cos the tracks and walking trails get damaged really easily when there's rain cos of landslides/mudslides. Beautiful though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Terre

rainbowdrop

Not quite the same thing, but one of my best friends house is in Co Limerick, and their garden is in Co Cork (tbf the garden IS 6 acres)......

prettygurrly

Drogheda straddles two counties to the point that the local hospital has to cater its services to whether your address is Drogheda, Co. Meath or Drogheda, Co. Louth - apparently meath people are/were entitled to more physiotherapy than Louthonians...according to the physiotherapist I used to live with in 2007 anyway...

Another interesting place in Mont St Michel in Normandy that gets cut off by the tide twice a day....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel

apparently they've now built a bridge for various reasons...

dixiedan

Does this count?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****ing,_Austria

Promac

I used to live just outside Basel. The town straddles the borders between Germany, France and Switzerland and they've placed the airport in a position where they have 3 exits with each leading to a different country. It's very strange. Get the tram into town from the German side and you have to do a passport check halfway in when you hit Switzerland.

Black_Knight

(1) There is a Navajo Nation, which observes Daylight savings time, inside (2) the Hopi region which doesn't observe Daylight savings time, inside the (3)greater Navajo Nation which observes Daylight savings time, which is inside (4)Arizona which doesnt observe Daylight savings time. Which of course is inside the (5)United States where they do observe Daylight savings time.

As the crow flies, I count a potential 10 time changes on the map below.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/CheeseMoose/arizonasavingstime.png

mikemac1

Ah I can't top those stories

Out whest if you go to Shrule the Galway-Mayo border is right across the town. Town is generous, it's no more then a village

Ok county borders are common but there is usually a river in a town so it's obvious

This place has just an imaginary line, many a pub debate has been had where the border is exactly

PseudoFamous

We have a fucking pyramid in Arklow. http://i.imgur.com/rMxC8.jpg

pushkii

we have a holy tree stump in rathkeale ?