President Theodore Roosevelt vetoed the idea.
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This map renames American states as countries with similar GDPs. It gives you a sense of just how wealthy the United States is.
“West Floriday, that lovely nation, Free from king and tyranny, Thru’ the world shall be respected, For her true love of Liberty!” So goes a marching song that never got […]
Leopold Kohr, who championed the principle 'small is beautiful', also applied it to geopolitics
In the end, the Dutch went for the less ambitious drainage scheme of Cornelis Lely
Because of eurocentrism. But probably not for much longer.
Up to 8,000 people each year go hunting for a legendary gold mine, guided by cryptic maps like these.
Long dead and gone, the Rochester Subway lives on in the imagination - and on this map
Baseball is the quintessential North American sport, as demonstrated by this map
Prester John as virtual as he was virtuous, the legend literally too good to be true.
Did this far-out story of lizards below LA father the conspiracy theory of world-ruling reptilians?
Sprinkled throughout the city - but often poorly indicated - are dozens of Privately Owned Public Open Spaces
The rough beauty of the American West seems as far as you can get from the polished corridors of power in Washington DC.
Is the Boss to Jersey what Joyce was to Dublin?
The map on the bedroom wall of every teenage Bilderberger