Like Plant Learnings, I don’t know where to store my map discoveries, but I find more and more than I wish I had physical maps to reference and absorb in a more intuitive way to understand the places we go and the places where our loved ones are and even just the places we talk about.
Right now all I know comes from one of my besties such that this might belong on Things from My Friends but since she doesn’t have her own discoveries website (yet!) I’m just going to put them here for now:
Well for printed maps I really only know of David Imus. https://imusgeographics.com/
The Erwin Reisz map is really nice for getting a felt sense of US landforms and I think there are various print sellers: https://www.historicpictoric.com/products/historic-map-united-states-physical-landforms-raisz-1957
For finding a map you want to figure out how to print yourself, David Rumsey’s collection: https://www.davidrumsey.com/ You need a keyword or region to get started otherwise it’s overwhelming, but if I had a Chelsea’s Discoveries website this would be a frequently recommended internet journey.
(Total side note, one thing I adore about Erwin Raisz’s map (which I believe he made by solo piloting a small helicopter or similar contraption over the US himself and making drawings!) is how perfectly coherent Nevada is from a landforms perspective.)
I don’t really have a go to world map suggestion. In all mapping, you distort some things in order to present others more clearly/truthfully. The compromise is greater the bigger the area you’re mapping. So world maps I think are most useful relationally but digital interactions with like Google Earth and a satellite imagery overlay are better for a felt sense of The Way Things Are™? Or, an actual globe.