Compare and contrast with this shot of the border between Derby Line, VT and Sandstead, Quebec.

There are many places on the U.S.-Canada border that don't look like the way people imagine borders at all; check out "0 Street" in Surrey BC on Google Street View, or look along the Vermont border for the little towns that straddle the border; they are positively quaint in this post-9/11 era. A border as it should be, but for how long?

The link from Jim's comment didn't come over, so here it is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HaskellLibraryBorderLine.jpg =)