Mapping America: Every City, Every Block is an interactive feature by The New York Times that allows you to explore the financial, racial, and educational make-ups of every city in America.
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block is an interactive feature by The New York Times that allows you to explore the financial, racial, and educational make-ups of every city in America.

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There are 2.3 million people living in America with no car and without a supermarket within a one-mile radius. Where do they live?

Broken City Lab set up these brighlty colored cardboard letters to call attention to Windsor, Ontario's "dead-zone" known to as "Ripper's Valley."

This is a screenshot of a photo collection of the victims who died in Saturday's tragic shooting.
From the folks at WeatherSealed who brought you the map of every McDonald's in America, see here, the map of every fast-food hamburger in America....
Today is World Toilet Day, which aims to call attention to the crisis of water sanitation around the wold.

Watch this stunning sequence of the hundreds of aftershocks to the massive 9.0 earthquake that has sent Japan reeling.

The Nigerian-born R&B artist Riz takes 5 minutes every day to add a new component to this mosaic about significant moments from the year.

See the regional peculiarities of how people speak where you live, and across the country

A project to document Muslims in America via a tour of the country seeks to show the breadth and depth of an often misunderstood religion.

"Arrrgmented Reality" is David Schwen's submission to a recent Threadless contest, and it's incredible.

House of Contamination turns all varieties of trash into a walkable indoor city.
Roman Ondák's "Measuring the Universe" is constantly changing installation that invites visitors to plot their heights directly onto museum walls.

Capture, by artist Christian Kerrigan: a frozen ecology of 1,000 seeds and flowers from Kingley Vale, England's last remaining ancient yew forest.

The artist Michael Neff uses chalk to trace the shadows cast by the artificially illuminated city, and photographs the fleeting results.

Wilson A. Bentley was the first person to photograph a single snowflake and the image is stunning—though it may be atypical.

Lighting designer Benoit Deseille and artist Benedetto Bufalino transformed this phone booth into an aquarium, as part of Lyon's Festival of Light.

Joseph Griffiths's Bicycle Drawing Machine is basically a Spirograph you can ride.

Ozkar Gorgias's new artwork shows you what it's like to walk in a street artist's shoes.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures an image of an enormous prominence around the sun. Check out this accompanying video.

Jim Kazanjian takes many different digital photographs and turns them into these grand composites of surreal architectural madness.