It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be? The answer, proposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where is the true "middle of nowhere?" Philosophically speaking, it's always about two hours drive from your home town.

Earth has no shortage of strange and dramatic places. There’s the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan — a natural gas crater that has burned continuously since 1971. North Sentinel Island in India’s Andaman ...