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Tony Hisgett, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0

It's like traveling without stepping outside.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection // CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

All 60 hand-drawn sheets have been assembled for the first time.

John Green breaks down some little-known facts about maps.

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Of course, there may be a reason people don't go to Russia in the dead of winter.

Land Cover CCI, ESA

It took a full year’s worth of satellite data to make it.

Prof Kenneth Myers

The Valeriepieris circle is home to more than 3 billion people.

Theo Rindos

"I have always been fascinated by transit maps and river systems, and I thought, 'Why not put them together?'"

Transport for London

Avoiding long stretches of tunnels just got easier for London commuters.

Courtesy Van Eaton Galleries

The first map of Disneyland, drawn to sell the park to investors, hasn't been seen by the public in 60 years.

Can you name the largest U.S. cities whose city limits border another state?

Can you name the southernmost countries in each continent?

Luke Spencer

Crocker Land was all but a phantom—one that famed explorer Robert E. Peary had invented out of the thin Arctic air.

A new book collects rare images from the short-lived golden age of pictorial mapping.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics can now pinpoint what's making your ears hurt.

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse by Rembrandt van Rijn. De Lairesse, a painter and art theorist, had congenital syphilis that deformed his face and eventually blinded him.

The origins of syphilis may be one of the greatest (and grossest) health mysteries of our time. What we do know is that, throughout history, people were quick to point fingers at each other.

The Paleobiology Database

See who your neighbors would have been 100 million years ago.