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 ...

"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 ...

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

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 ...

With our road atlas on family trips, those of us in the back seat had to endure arguments between the driver and navigator ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crowd-sourced and user-generated, the website's purpose was to counter commodified and homogenized tourism says co-founder Joshua Foer. The new book version of the site profiles over 700 places all ...

And phantom islands that never really existed are still being presented as “real” in the 21st century. As recently as 2012, the so-called Sandy Island between Australia and New Caledonia was ...