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ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple’s gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects

The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.

Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.

UAE is the world’s most expensive country to start a business, but it’s free in Rwanda.

Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.

A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.

U.S. states vary radically in terms of electricity generation. Vermont is the cleanest, while Delaware is the dirtiest.

A “seafood mafia” is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China’s appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.

Six denominations share the Holy Sepulcher, but not all between them is peace and love.

James Gillray’s ‘plumb-pudding’ caricature is “probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.”

Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a “super state.”

Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.

Map shows Europe’s imminent Great Leap Forward in battery cell production

Topologists can’t tell donuts from coffee mugs, but their maps are revelatory nonetheless.

Ancient corridors below the French capital have served as its ossuary, playground, brewery, and perhaps soon, air conditioning.

The European currency features buildings that didn’t exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete

First drawn in 1935, Hu Line illustrates persistent demographic split – how Beijing deals with it will determine the country’s future.

In Germany and France, having an Anglo-Saxon first name is a good predictor of extreme voting behavior.

An artificial island in the North Sea is the biggest building project ever in Danish history – and could pave the way for many more.

‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?

Legendary cartoonist John Groth’s pictorial map captures LA’s film factories in their Golden Age.

Despite overall increase over the past 20 years, share of women in science and engineering falls in some European countries

Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.

More than a century after the end of hostilities in 1918, some battlefields of WWI are still deadly enough to kill you.

1895 map of New York City shows ‘concrete socialism’ in red, ‘private enterprises’ in white.

Underperforming, the U.S. comes in only 157th out of 196 in global triangularity ranking.

First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.

Interactive globe shows where your hometown was at various stages of Earth’s deep geological past.

The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.

In this 1915 map, Lady Liberty shines her light in the West on women in the East, still in electoral darkness