A wonder of the web: Worldmapper

Worldmapper is a website out of the University of Sheffield in Britain that has dozens of beautiful and fascinating maps of the world - dozens because the cartographers (people who make and study maps) mapped the world according to things other than geography and political boundaries. Below is a screenshot of their homepage, and note the different looks of the maps:

Click on the image above to view the Worldmapper homepage.

Don't look like your usual maps of the world, do they?

This site currently has 227 maps of everything from Land Area to Tourist Destinations to Cars Exports (check out how massive and distorted Japan is!) to Forest Loss. Each map is linked to a descriptive webpage that outlines exactly what the map is about and contains a PDF poster that contains further information and can be printed out and displayed. Check it out!