CartoCuriosity Podcast

CartoCuriosity is a podcast dedicated to the strange, surprising, and wonderfully peculiar corners of historical cartography. Each episode explores the forgotten stories and unusual artifacts that lie between the lines of old maps — from cartographic hoaxes that misled explorers for centuries, to secret maps used in espionage, and fantastical charts drawn to sell off the remnants of the Bastille. We also examine how great creators like J. R. R. Tolkien used maps to shape their imagined worlds and how maps themselves shaped the real one.

Hosted by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps and produced by Silver Sound, CartoCuriosity blends storytelling, scholarship, and a touch of mystery to reveal how maps are not only guides to geography — but to the human imagination.