How to dream up, save, and organize the places you want to visit, and turn them into a trip that actually happens.
Dubrovnik was King's Landing, a Basque island hermitage was Dragonstone and an Icelandic lava cave hid Jon and Ygritte. Here are 41 real Game of Thrones filming locations across nine countries, sorted by the places they played, on one free map.
From Platform 9¾ at King's Cross to the Glenfinnan Viaduct and Hogwarts cloisters in Oxford, Gloucester and Durham, here are 31 real Harry Potter filming locations in Britain on one free map, sorted by the places they played.
All 55 prints of Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, from Nihonbashi in Edo to the Sanjo Bridge in Kyoto, pinned on the post towns they show. Several still have their old inns, checkpoints and streets.
All 46 prints of Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, from the Great Wave to Red Fuji, pinned where each view is believed to have been drawn. Most of the places still exist, and some still show Fuji on a clear day.
From Bolivia's Death Road to a French causeway that disappears under the sea twice a day, here are 42 of the world's most dangerous and spectacular roads, each pinned at its most iconic point on one free map.
A map of 45 certified dark-sky places and legendary astronomy sites, from the Atacama to a Japanese town that renamed itself after the stars. Where the Milky Way still looks the way it did before electric light.
A map of 42 places where geography stops behaving: towns sliced in two by borders, lands nobody wants, enclaves inside enclaves, and an imaginary island at 0,0. Filter by hashtag, copy the map, and go down the rabbit hole.
Studio Ghibli's worlds feel invented, but many of them started somewhere real. Here are 38 places across Japan, Taiwan and Europe that inspired the films, on one map, with the official connections and the fan legends clearly told apart.
Sixty-nine reportedly haunted places you can actually visit, from hotels that inspired horror classics to castles with resident legends. Filter by hashtag, pick a region, and build your own ghost route.
From the crater that ended the dinosaurs to a German town built inside one, 64 confirmed impact structures on a single map. Filter them by size, by state, or by whether you can actually stand on the rim.
Hobbiton, the Rocky Steps, Bond's mountaintop lair, the desert that played Mars and Arrakis. A map of 62 real filming locations you can stand in, filterable by film and franchise.
The oldest restaurant, the oldest hotel, the oldest pub, the oldest university. 48 record holders on one map, and the best part is that most of them are still open. You can eat, sleep and drink your way through history.
A map of 40 real locations where famous paintings were made, from Van Gogh's café in Arles to Hokusai's coast facing Fuji. Most of them are still recognizable today, and you can stand exactly where the easel stood.
Islands you can't visit, islands ruled by cats, islands that switch countries every six months. I mapped 43 of the strangest ones, from North Sentinel to Vulcan Point, all filterable by hashtag.
UFO cases are stories, but they're also places: a forest in Suffolk, a schoolyard in Zimbabwe, a dark stretch of Texas highway. I pinned 66 of the most famous ones on a single map, tagged and filterable, free to explore and copy.
A map of 45 real locations behind the world's great mysteries: vanished crews, buried treasure, ancient ruins nobody can explain, and a few cases science finally cracked. Every pin tells you honestly whether the mystery is still open.
A calm 10 to 14 day route for first-timers, from a smart three-day temple order in Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, Kampot and the islands. With a free companion map of 36 pinned places.
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and one great side trip. The classic route works; the mistakes are all in the pacing. Here's how to walk it in two weeks without burning out.
Laos is the calmest first trip in Southeast Asia, and the easiest to route badly. Here's a two week flow built around Luang Prabang, with a north or south extension depending on what you're after.
Ancient rock fortresses, a slow train through tea country, leopards, and a coastline of surf towns, all on one small island. Here's the classic loop, region by region, with the honest tips that make it work.
Taiwan packs night markets, marble gorges and tea-house hill towns into an island you can cross in two hours. Here's a calm 10 to 14 day plan for your first visit, with a free companion map of all 40 places.
The best trips aren't planned in a frantic week before departure. Here's how to collect places over time and turn them into a trip you'll actually take.
Japan rewards the well-prepared traveler more than almost anywhere. Here's a calm, repeatable way to do it. Collect spots as you research, organize them by area, and turn the map into a day-by-day route.
You've saved fifty places you want to visit. Now what? Here's how to turn a pile of pins into a realistic day-by-day plan that survives contact with a real trip.
Great photos start long before you pick up the camera. Here's how to build a living map of places you want to shoot, and walk straight to the good light when you're finally there.