This cool illustration from a 1921 issue of Scientific American uses a human head to demonstrate how map projections distort the sizes and shapes of landmasses. The upper left drawing shows a globe, which is why the head...

It’s like those animated maps showing the rise and fall of empires. A swarm of...  ...istration, Reuben Fischer-Baum of Jezebel created maps showing, state by state and year by year, the mos...

And my own sweet land of liberty? We Americans lead the world in Nobel laureates and getting killed by lawnmowers. Yeehaw!USA! USA! USA!Doghouse Diaries created this map showing what every country excels at. You can see...

Frances Henshaw was a 14-year-old schoolgirl when...  ...14-year-old schoolgirl when she drew a series of maps in 1828. There were only 24 states at that time;...  ...each state in beautiful handwriting.Besides these maps , Henshaw’s book also contains carefully tra...

(Image: LiveScience)Greenland is covered with a sh...  ...g Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China.Link -via Amazing Maps

Neatorama's own managing editor, Miss Cellania, ha...  ...of these silkscreened prints made on vintage road maps of her state.Link -via NotCot

Early cartographers often included illustrations o...  ...trations or descriptions of sea monsters on their maps , in order to warn explorers of their location. So...  ...ew book, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps . However, the many illustrations are hundreds of...

(Photo: Washington Map Society)This globe, which d...  ...ay by collector Stefaan Missinne. “In early maps , you would see images of sea monsters; it was a w...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Except, of course, for all the people who already lived there. Shoot, he wasn't even the first European to arrive the Americas.So what lands did the Europeans actual...

(Image: Amazing Maps )China has a population of 1.35 billion people. Th...