The commies were ready to take over Central Park. A trove of secret, highly-detailed Soviet maps from the early 1980s shows street level views of New York, Washington, D.C., and other major cities — ...

South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982. Image via Wired With its final days almost 25 years passed (though historians ...

Evidently Obama and Medvedev have "reset" U.S.-Russia relations. In fact, the White House actually re-Tweeted the Kremlin account yesterday and the two ran off for a midday Hellburger. But it's worth ...

What did Washington D.C. look like to the Soviets? A set of detailed maps from the Cold War era, replete with Cyrillic writing on familiar landmarks, gives one perspective. Elliot Carter, who runs the ...

A new Soviet map of the Palestine area received here seems to indicate a Soviet political desire to divide pieces of Israel’s territory among its Arab neighbors. Theoretically based on the 1947 United ...

This 1976 map of Seattle is not the kind you would have bought at a gas station. No, this is a secret map put together by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army.

English retiree John Davies has been smitten with maps his whole life. “I was drawing maps of my house as a toddler,” he said. Though his career in software didn’t allow regular forays into ...