Hold on to your treasure maps and space helmets—The First Cat in Space & The Baby Pirate’s Revenge is blasting off in a big way. The newest installment of the wildly imaginative series by Mac Barnett ...

Everyone is familiar with the idea of buried pirate treasure, and maps where “X marks the spot.” But is there any evidence of such a practice? Were there ever any pirate treasure maps as described?

Peg and Cat help repair the pirates' sinking ship./Peg and Cat assemble pieces of a map. Peg and Cat must help the pirates put together a puzzle, and then the four sections of their sinking ship. / ...

Everyone is familiar with the idea of buried pirate treasure, and maps where “X marks the spot.” But is there any evidence of such a practice? Were there ever any pirate treasure maps as described?

Players rocking around Assassin's Creed Odyssey's fresh take on Ancient Greece are likely to stumble upon the pirate Xenia, a stout woman of firm resolve who will eventually ask for the hero's help in ...

This excerpt is taken from National Geographic’s new book All Over the Map, a guided tour through the world’s most incredible maps, assembled by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller, authors of the “All Over ...