In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first burger stand in San Bernardino, CA. With the help of Ray Kroc, the brothers took their restaurant across the country over the course of the ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One ... front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive map shows the victories, defeats and painful stalemate ...

When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's true size from German graphic designer Kai Krause, we created 15 map overlays to open your eyes ...

Esri, a spatial analytics firm based in California, has put together a animated map of California wildfires over the last century. Watch how quickly COVID-19 is spreading around the U.S. and world ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

As Quartz points out, the animated map looks kind of like the vintage video ... So while it doesn't show all of the hacking going on in the world, it could be a representative snapshot of today's ...