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Alburgh, Vermont
A Vermont town joined by land only to Canada
Carter Lake, Iowa
An Iowa city on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River
Hurricane Alley
The warm-water path of Atlantic hurricanes
Hyder, Alaska
An Alaska town that lives on Canadian time
Kentucky Bend
A piece of Kentucky you cannot reach from Kentucky
Little Diomede Island
Two and a half miles from Russia, and a day behind it
Point Roberts
A Washington town reachable by land only through Canada
The 100th Meridian
The historic line between the humid East and arid West
The Continental Divide
The Great Divide of the Rocky Mountains
The Delaware Wedge
A sliver of land claimed by three states until 1921
The Eastern Continental Divide
The Appalachian line between Atlantic and Gulf waters
The Fall Line
Where the Piedmont drops to the coastal plain
The Northwest Angle
The only part of the lower 48 north of the 49th parallel
The Twelve-Mile Circle
The curved border that shapes the top of Delaware
Tornado Alley
The most tornado-prone region on Earth
U.S. Time Zones
The four clocks of the contiguous country
Watersheds & River Basins
How the country drains to the sea
Yellowstone’s Zone of Death
A 50-square-mile legal loophole in Idaho