Is it a map showing the internet, as the former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens once put it, as a “series of tubes,” piping hot information around the world at 300,000,000 meters per second?

That’s how Martin Vargic sees it. Vargic, who has been creating maps since age 11, spent about 1,000 hours literally mapping out the Internet, and the results are impressive to say the least.

A significant piece of California history is going up for auction later this month. Auction house Bonhams will present what it’s calling “the most important 18th century map of California ...

In the mid-18th century, teams of men spread out across Vermont to map the wilderness, using crude equipment to divide Vermont into 251 towns, and then into lots.

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates ...

While studying 18th-century maps, Bengtsson noticed a strange rectangle — and brought himself to the site. A surveyor marked the location as "Klosterkullen," or "monastery hill," on a 1760 map.

Some of the Jews expelled from Recife, Brazil in 1654 by the Portuguese also settled in Suriname, and, not long after, Suriname was one of the most important Jewish population centers in the Western H ...

The map, drawn in Mexico and signed by Costano on Oct. 30, 1770 details the inlets of the bay and North Bay, and alongside San Francisco, also names Point Reyes and the Farallones.

A hand-drawn, 18th-century map of New Mexico now officially belongs to the New Mexico History Museum's research library, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported (http:\/\/bit.ly\/1uZGEXy).