Acadiana has more pride of place than most spots and its range of locally made gift items is broad. We've picked a few favorites. Located at 1020 Auburn Ave. in Lafayette, The Historic Map Company ...

A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still lingers in the way we talk about borders and nations today. What began as a ...

The map showing the Elder's course was prepared using maps published by the United States Coast Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. Geographer Henry Gannett traced the route onto an existing ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

Want to go from Venice to the Swiss Alps all without a passport? Discover the movie location map that lets you see the world ...

If you’re shopping for a history buff and can’t find anything at the big-box stores, consider buying a paper reprint of one of the Texas General Land Office’s nostalgic archival maps for as little as ...

The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New ...

Image overlays have consistently been one of the neatest features in Google Earth. The most common use of overlays is to show imagery that is more fresh than what can be found in Google Earth (such as ...

New York City is known for its stunning architecture, but much of what you will pass by on a daily basis holds little known or hidden histories. To make it easier for the public to learn the backstory ...