1. The shortest border crossing is only a few feet long—it’s a pedestrian walkway in some tiny Arizona town. You blink, you miss it.
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2. The border has a boomerang shape: it dips south around Texas (thanks to the Rio Grande) and then juts north near California. It’s like the land didn’t want to be a straight line, so it got sassy.
3. There’s a spot near Yuma, Arizona where the border crosses a golf course. Yep, you can tee off in the U.S. and land your ball in Mexico. Fore! Just don’t try to retrieve it without a passport—that’s a hand-in done wrong.