Philip K. Dick wrote that we can all meet again, in another part of the forest, where a boy and his bear will always be playing ... imperishable, like all of us.  We will wind up with Pooh, in a clearer, more durable new place.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, here is our map locating Pooh's Platonic ideal in the imperishable forest.

Her map dress and sculpture hat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.

We like the four winds in these endpapers from Swarthmore's 1940 yearbook.

"Bear location still bare."  From Butler Community College's 1986 yearbook.  See this most unusual collection of the blankest maps ever attempted: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

"If you get into unmapped territory, improvise."  —Tim Powers, Declare

See this remarkable book of truly unmappable regions: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

Here's a precursor to the Chicago trains map dress.  From Judge's Library, 1893.

Here's how a snowflake is a table and a O is an unfamiliar notion.  From A Handbook of Phrenotypics for Teachers and Students by Major Beniowski, 1842.

A map of the Atlantean city of Tlamco (now San Francisco).  From Yermah the Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait, 1897.

If our eyes aren't deceiving us, this is a map of The Unknown Sea.  From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman, 1898.

The northern and southern eyes of Spectacles Island, from the endpapers of Maida's Little House by Inez Haynes Gillmore, 1921.

Here's a blank map of the North Pole, from Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

"Right there at the bottom of the page where the map ends. A whole other place. As if I don't have enough new stuff to think about." —Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

"Where the map ends is where the world ends." —Sword of Tilk Trilogy: Book One: Worlds Apart

"'Yes, no doubt about it, the map ends at this juncture.'  Windza sat down.  'So what do we do now, turn back?'" —A. C. Wright, The Stone

The endpapers to The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.

You've heard that "the face of Illinois … is becoming increasingly Latino" (Primeros Pasos, 2013).  Here's what it used to look like.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"It is not down in any map; true places never are."
—Herman Melville