Articles by Frank Jacobs

See what's taking its place for the first time in almost 1,500 years.

We're wrong about directions and locations of many countries.

It’s not a Christmas trick, but the colorful effect could change everything.

The human tongue detected it long before it could say it.

The correlation between temperature and flavor is obvious across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

A map of confidence and kindness from California to New York.

The sea level here is hundreds of feet lower than the rest of the ocean.

Will the tunnels, host to many illegal parties, get filled with concrete?

The answer reveals grave robbing problems for America’s deceased leaders.

Will extraterrestrials try to see the city or the countryside?

Find your state’s quietest route.

Which parts of the East Coast and California might Germany and Japan have claimed?

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.