Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “It’s one of the most beautiful maps to have survived from the Renaissance,” says Chet Van Duzer, a historian ...

This is also the case with the new National Geographic National Parks app ... a beautifully styled photo wall of all parks to choose from or alternatively a map (with fluent Google Maps integration) ...