"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

How do you impress a king? Here’s one idea—give him a giant book. That’s what the Dutch sugar merchant Johannes Klencke did in 1660, when English King Charles II was restored to the throne (and he ...

When he was growing up in communist Bulgaria, graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov became obsessed with maps. Atlases were among the few colorful books he had access to, and he spent hours tracing the maps ...

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge presents in clear and concise visual form the impacts and effects, solutions and mitigation actions surrounding climate change – ...

The American road trip is symbolic of adventure and discovery. Sometimes driving without direction is part of the fun, but we bet even Jack Kerouac occasionally looked at a map. That’s where Rand ...

Map enthusiast and researcher Kerim Bayer has drawn from his collection of 1,366 maps to create a graphic-design book containing 5,180 thumbnail images. Bayer made the Map Section book for the ...

Despite its exotic name, there’s a very good reason you’ve never booked a vacation to the Quilombo of Palmeres. Same goes for the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour and Neutral Moresnet. They ...

The incredible maps – including this one of Newcastle – were produced over a 40-year period (Picture: The Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World) The Soviet Union spent decades ...