The swampland distance conjecture compares different effective field theories at distant points in moduli space. A complementary question is whether it is possible to construct localized excitations that sample extreme regions of moduli space in a fixed EFT coupled to gravity. I will discuss various objects with this property, including Kaluza-Klein bubbles, dilatonic black holes, and cosmic strings. In many cases these objects exhibit horizons or instabilities, sometimes after imposing the weak gravity conjecture. These examples suggest that quantum gravity in asymptotically flat space imposes certain bounds on the distance in field space that can be probed by local excitations.
