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 ...

The Lovecraft Atlas, which beautifully maps the cosmically terrifying worlds brought into existence H.P, Lovecraft, is only ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Road atlases—those bulky mainstays of cross-country family road trips—may seem obsolete in the era of GPS and navigation apps, but don’t close the book on paper maps just yet. In 2014, Rand McNally ...

An extract from the map of Britain and Ireland showing fictional places in the south-east. Update March 2022: Atlas of Imagined Places has won the Edward Stanford Prize for Best Illustrated Travel ...

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We all know that Sherlock lived at 221b Baker Street. But who were his fictional neighbours? A new book, co-authored by Londonist's editor-at-large Matt Brown, maps thousands of locations from movies, ...

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 ...

Remember that time California was an island? Johannes Vingboons, who mapped out the West Coast (or coasts, in this case) around 1650, may be remembered for his incredible blunder, but because of ...