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Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
Guess which country has 269% inflation.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called "cartophilately."
Wyoming's roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland's. California's road safety is on par with Romania's.
Is the vast "Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area" the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
"When you see me, weep." When rivers dry up in Central Europe, "hunger stones" with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.
Meet the world's largest landowners.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
If you want to escape the negativity, head to Kazakhstan.
There are nearly 100 towns named "Troy."
Environmental activists want us to feel "flight shame" if we can take a train, instead. But this isn't entirely realistic, even in Europe.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
Scallop shells have accompanied pilgrims to and from Santiago de Compostela for centuries, for more than one reason
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.
Thanks to genetics and improving nutrition, denizens of the Western Balkans have surpassed the Dutch in height.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
On New Year's Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish "Wreck Viewer" offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk