Two months and 14,498 miles is what it will take to visit all U.S. national parks in the lower 48 states on this optimized ...
LONDON – A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World (search) as "America" and depict the Pacific Ocean was sold Wednesday for a record $1 million, an auction house said.
The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's auction ...