Want to go from Venice to the Swiss Alps all without a passport? Discover the movie location map that lets you see the world ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still lingers in the way we talk about borders and nations today. What began as a ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

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The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...