In 1998, artist Eliot R. Brown created a map of Gotham City for the Batman No Man’s Land series. Brown describes the process of making the map, meant to look something like Manhattan with a lot more villains and a way for the federal government to blast the bridges and tunnels to the outside world.
[via Smithsonian]

Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
