Beyond the Sea

What you're staring at as you stand upon the shore probably isn't what you think it is. It's definitely not what I thought it was anyway. 

"In the northern reaches of Newfoundland...if you...gaze straight across the ocean...you can see all the way to Australia."

Andy Woodruff has created some incredible maps that actually follow the curvature of the earth, so next time you're standing on the western shores of Ireland, try getting your head around the fact that you might be looking at Brazil - or thereabouts. Mad. 

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A Map of Stereotypes

You can buy it too. 

Circular Maps

Mapmaker Max Roberts has taken underground/metro/subway maps from around the world and given them a good redesign. Like Harry Beck's famous London Tube map, they don't follow the land, but are arranged in a way to make them easy and quick to understand. Rather good, if you ask me.