Maps

Go to bed, Hawaii!

Placing Literature is a crowdsourced website dedicated to mapping the geographies of books.

It's geographically accurate. The labels, not so much.

With a little help from Reddit, the librarian who unearthed the work identified it as a copy of the rare Cedid Atlas.

When kids in America fly the coop, they don’t go very far.

It's like a lottery ticket, but you win history instead of cash.

Transit Explorer maps North America’s “fixed-guideway transit” options, like subways, streetcars, commuter trains, and bus-rapid transit.

In case you needed another reason to distrust squirrels.

Discover your spirit country when it comes to all things spirits.

A new technique allows scientists to reveal the galaxy's young, old, and middle-age stars.

Learn about the region's history, culture, and current political climate.

Take a midday stroll across the world.

Taxis pick up in Manhattan, but they drop off everywhere.

The Library of Congress recently digitized a group of these early puzzles.

Follow in the footsteps of the world's greatest secret agent.

See what the most popular Halloween costume is in your area.

Sorry, Columbus fanatics. The Spaniard didn't debunk the flat earth theory any more than he "discovered" the Americas.

Columbus’ first map of Hispaniola was a little sparse on details.

Four decades of data show that women across the United States are waiting longer and longer to have kids.

Science is making text that hasn't been visible for hundreds of years reappear. Here's how.

In the 19th century, there was more than one way to say "oui."

After a Freedom of Information request, London's transportation authority finally created a Tube map that shows the actual distance between stops.

A glimpse at how road trips were planned in the pre-Internet age.