GEOGRAPHY

From savory chicken pot pie to the nutty pecan pie, find out which dishes people are interested in for Pi Day.

WalletHub has ranked the top U.S. cities for college basketball fans, with Los Angeles topping the list.

Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to handle today’s traffic.

From Acadia to Zion, the U.S. has some pretty majestic national parks. Here’s one fun fact about every single one—plus a map so you can see where they all are.

Until a few decades ago, Ukraine was almost always referred to as 'the Ukraine'. Then people started dropping the definite article, and now you almost never see it. Here's why.

Today, Amber Valley looks like any number of small, rural communities, but a couple dilapidated log cabins hint at what was once the northernmost all-Black settlement in the world.

Let’s celebrate another year in the books with a look back at how our knowledge grew over the past 12 months.

Looking for love? Your geography may (or may not) be doing you any favors.

Content about maps, fascinating facts about everyday objects, language, and dogs was a hit among Mental Floss readers this year.

You may have been taught that Earth has seven continents. Or is it six? Or eight?

Ireland and Scotland are not the only places the mighty Roman Empire failed to vanquish.

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map.