Argentina

A rotating circle of plants in Argentina, a boiling river 400 miles from any volcano, and the founders who got voted off the board.

One pole is a militarized chessboard, the other a treaty-bound science preserve. Same frozen water — completely opposite outcomes.

The Arctic has a binding rescue treaty. Antarctica has nothing. Here's who actually comes when you're stranded at the poles.

Fifteen obscure sub-Antarctic islands, the governments that run them, and the penguin who holds a noble title.

Ninety percent of rare earth processing runs through one country. So what happens when a nation tries to trade with nobody at all?

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.

Jerusalem ran out of ground for its dead — so it built a multi-storey car park where the parking spaces are graves.