Across the United States, some towns have vanished entirely, leaving little more than memories and historical records behind.

Our conventions as map readers and makers have converged over time to a north-up default. What happens when that convention ...

Christie's auction house says it has discovered a previously unknown copy of the first map to name America, and the 510-year-old manuscript will be for sale next month.

"When doing the US landfall map, it occurred to me just how active the 1880s were. In our database, the 1880s hold the record for the most landfalling US hurricanes in a single decade, at 20.