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- The Giriyondo border post in the Kruger National Park reportedly allows passage from South Africa into Mozambique, meaning that you have to contend with both lions and border guards when crossing from one country to the other.
- Intrepid travellers who have visited the Diomede Islands claim they have seen into the future by looking across from little Diomede to big Diomede, two islands - one owned by the US and the other by Russia, which crosses the international dateline meaning that the larger of the two is a full day ahead of the other.
- Travellers have reported the surreal and somewhat unexpected experience of passing through no man's land when crossing between the Turkish and Greek halves of the island.
- The border crossing at Paso Canoas apparently has a shopping arcade straddling the border, which means that rather than using border controls, you can walk through the shopping arcade and into the other country without incident.
- Visitors to Northwest Angle, an American township that's technically part of Minnesota can only access it overland via Canada at certain times of year, meaning they have to leave the United States to get into the United States!
- Apparently the standalone gateway at the 3,900m-high Torugart pass between Kyrgyzstan and China is an impressive spectacle made unusual by the lines of trucks waiting to pass through the border checks.
- The strange border at Baarle-Nassau sees white lines and crosses differentiating between Dutch and Belgian territory. Apparently differences in alcohol laws in the past meant that drinkers simply switched which half of town they were in when one half stopped selling alcohol.
- Travellers to Bangladesh from India have the battle of Indo-Bangladeshi enclaves where parts of India sit within Bangladeshi territory and vice versa. In particular, the Indian enclave of Dahala Khagrabari, which sits inside a Bangladeshi enclave, which in turn sits inside an Indian enclave, which is inside Bangladesh; effectively making it the enclave of an enclave of an enclave. Confusing to say the least!
- Tourists who have visited the salt mine of Bad Dürrnberg at the Austro-German border say the salt mine crosses the border underground, which is visibly marked within the tunnels.
- It's not so much the crossing, but rather the closing of the border at Wagah in the evening. The daily elaborate military display that takes place between Pakistani troops and Indian troops has been compared to 'strutting peacocks'.