Each story follows a real route across the map, with a question waiting at every stop. Answer as you go and see how well you know the place by the time you reach the end.
A British colony and a Portuguese enclave sit on either side of one river mouth, with a fishing village turned city of skyscrapers in between. Loop the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong through Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Macau by train and ferry, then ride a bus home over the sea.
From Shibuya Crossing into the Japanese Alps, over to the Sea of Japan and down through Kyoto and Hiroshima to a live volcano in Kyushu, all by bullet train, bus and ferry. It is a first trip you could book as it stands, planned day by day.
From Hagia Sophia down the Aegean coast and over the Taurus Mountains to Göbekli Tepe, the oldest temples on Earth. It is a first trip you could book as it stands, planned day by day.
New York to San Francisco the long way, down the whole of Route 66 in the year it turns 100, with a detour to the rim of the Grand Canyon and a drive up Big Sur to finish.
In through the Red Fort in Delhi and around the Golden Triangle, then all the way down the west coast, past Goa and the ruins of Hampi, to a houseboat on the Kerala backwaters.
By train from the ice of Harbin to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, by way of the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Li River, the pandas of Chengdu and the Terracotta Army.
One small valley in India’s far northeast has its own language, Manipuri, and a kingdom 2,000 years old behind it. Follow it down the Barak River to the town where the world learned polo.
Unroll its coastline and it reaches past New York. A scrolling map tour from the sandy tip of Jutland, past some 400 islands, to the bridge that dives under the sea.
Pin it at its southern tip and it reaches past Rome. A scrolling map tour from the Baltic to the Arctic, and the town moving out of the way of its own mine.