Strange Maps

There are nearly 100 named "Troy."

The first of many of these puzzling objects was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don't know what they were for.

An Edinburgh University project uses data to track the victims of Scottish "witch-prickers" in the 16th and 17th centuries.

On New Year's Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific liner steamed into history. Or did he?

One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was the virgin, and rather powerless.

The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.

Minnesota's "Lost Forty" survived the lumberjack's ax thanks to a improperly drawn lake.

A representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early-20th-century indigenous African cartography.

Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.

Legendary cartoonist John Groth's pictorial map captures L.A.'s film factories in their Golden Age.

The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.

Thousands of years of attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.