Spanning a mere thirty-two feet across the Saint Lawrence River, a tiny wooden footbridge connecting two small islands is often proudly touted as the shortest international crossing between the United States and Canada.

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Spanning a mere thirty-two feet across the Saint Lawrence River, a tiny wooden footbridge connecting two small islands is often proudly touted as the shortest international crossing between the United States and Canada. The story goes that a wealthy man built his house on the slightly larger Canadian island and placed his backyard deck on the smaller American one, connecting them so he could easily stroll across the border to dodge taxes. Unfortunately for tourists who love a quirky geographical anomaly, local land surveys eventually proved both islands technically belong to Canada, completely ruining the romantic narrative of a miniature backyard border crossing. People still travel there to take photos of the bridge anyway, because why let boring cartographic facts get in the way of a perfectly good Instagram caption about being in two countries at once