Strange Maps

I stumbled across this blog, Strange Maps, by accident. It's fascinating, especially if you're a map geek like I am.

The anonymous blogger has some interesting maps showing, for example, a paranoid French depiction of what Germany and Austria-Hungary would claim if they won World War 1, a map of a little island shared by Finland and Sweden that ended up with a very odd boundary after the Finns inadvertently built a lighthouse on the Swedish part of the isle, and this map from the 1970s by an American geography professor that proposed splitting the US into 38 more cohesive states.