Ever since I was a kid I've loved looking at maps. I could (and did) spend hours at a time looking over atlases from all over the world. The weather guys get excited about clouds, I get excited by anything published by Rand-McNally.

This link comes with a hat tip to adamg at:

http://www.universalhub.com.

Several years ago Normal Leventhal put out a fantastic book called Mapping Boston which remains my favorite coffee table book of all time. The Boston Public Library has started posting many of the maps from the Normal Levinthal Map Center on their web site.

It’s a great historical resource and will take up hours of my time when I should be “working”.

http://maps.bpl.org/tag/location:/