Strange Maps

A number of factors cause you to be lighter or heavier in different parts of the world.

Much of Asia seems to be riddled onto the Lord of the Rings map of Middle Earth.

Fact and fiction blend together at zero latitude and zero longitude.

He also made the most accurate world map of that time—and left out the sea monsters.

Without this now-obscure land investment scheme, the Yazoo Land Affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."

In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.

Meet the world's largest landowners.

A nation divided into not two—but four—took the idea of secession to an extreme.

Is the vast Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area the final resting place of Genghis Khan?

Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous, and most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.

Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system—and Sweden.

A "seafood mafia" is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China's appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.

Mind-boggling as it is, they're often one and the same.

Launched in 1977 and now nearly 15 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 continues its journey at 38,000 miles per hour.

Can you guess who it is?

Two geographically separate populations of cute cephalopods once mated a very long time ago.

The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies, condensed into one attractive snapshot.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.