The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
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For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
Research suggests there's truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the "most loving" cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi's atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There's also a connection to James Bond.
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
You might think it's impossible to run out of wind, but Europe's "wind drought" proves otherwise. And it's only going to get worse.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?