save the best for last

OK, so these are sort of random, but they are all more or less historical. These WPA maps of los angeles are pretty cool.  You could spend much time wandering the LA basin with this as your guide.  but of course, you'd have to be in LA ... and who wants that?  The Art and Architecture Thesaurus online might be a helpful assistant to such a trip. On a completely different note, common-place is the site of the american antiquities society, so on first blush you might think that it has nothing to do with what you're interested in, but it does. The current special issue is all about Pacific routes, and hence not as much about urban cartography thing, but other articles and issues have some pretty cool historical mapping stuff. And the best for last: sewer history is one of the coolest poo sites you'll have checked out in awhile. One highlight is a 16th century poem that places a priest and the devil in conversation about whether or not one should pray while on the toilet. Of course there's also a ton of info on various historical sewer systems, including Paris, London, Egypt, Japan, and of course Tucson, Arizona.