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Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.

If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.

Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.

Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.

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.”

X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.

These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.

All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”

If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.

To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.

If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.

Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.

One possible vision of the distant future.

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!

In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn’t catch on.

Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.

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.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

Is the vast “Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area” the final resting place of Genghis Khan?

Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.

Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.

Meet the world’s largest landowners.

Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.

Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

Guess which country has 269% inflation.

When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”

For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.