(YouTube link) This animation is a 3D rendering of Mortimer's Cave, one of many available at the Nottingham Caves Survey. You'll also find photographic virtual tours of caves, movies, images, and a Google map to fin...

Rich Aschmann, a linguist, created a huge map of North America describing the boundaries and differences between various dialects of the English language. Keep scrolling down at the link, and you can find Aschmann's...

Paul Butler, and intern at Facebook, created this map of the world using ten millions online friendships: I combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities...

Vincenzo Cosenza created a series of maps tracking the most popular social networks around...

Click here for larger image This map rearranges the world by correlating the population of a country to actual size. Some countries (the United States, Yemen, Brazil and Ireland) remain in their original location. Ind...

Bruno Kurth and Tobias Reichling. Vanessa Graf, Tanja Kusserow-Kurth, and Torsten Scheer built an enormous relief map of Europe topped with models of famous monuments. They used 53,500 pieces to create a structure t...

Kris Kowal created an interactive map of Middle-earth. You can zoom and pan, search for or center a location, and link to a particular area. Place names are labeled in both English and Elvish. Link via Geekol...

This is a portion of a 1858 map of property li...  ...front. See the entire (enlargable) map at Strange Maps . Link

Rebecca Crane matched the geography of US states with planets in Star Wars to create a composite map of the United States. Texas is Kessel, Oregon is Endor, and Maine is Naboo. Crane writes: Planets were assigned ba...

Dimensions is a neat feature from the BBC that...  ...rlays historical or ecological events over modern maps centered on the postal code of your choice. The...