Pliny: History Around You

Every place has a story. Pliny turns the map into a history book about wherever you're standing. Open the app and the map meets you at your location, pinned with the histories of the buildings, blocks, and towns around you: when they were built, what they used to be, and what happened there. WALK UP TO HISTORY • Nearly 700,000 places across all fifty states — building ages, past lives, landmark records, and neighborhood stories, with the deepest coverage in New York City and Washington, DC. • More than 17,000 National Register listings, including the National Historic Landmarks, found town by town rather than only in the big cities. • Town pins everywhere: founding, name origin, and population story — from Manhattan to the smallest Kansas crossroads. SEE WHAT USED TO BE THERE • Historic photographs from the New York Public Library's collections, matched to the very corner you're looking at. • Heat layers repaint the city by building age, historic crime, population, property value, or story density. THE LAND ITSELF • Over 400,000 mountains, rivers, lakes, falls, springs and capes, with the measurements that matter and the story of how each one got its name. • A field guide to what lives around you — birds, plants and trees, with photographs and the notes that tell one species from the next. • Street tree inventories for New York and Washington: what is actually planted on your block. GO DEEPER • Walking tours: Pliny strings the best stories near you into a guided stroll. • On This Day: a dated story from history every day, delivered as a gentle notification if you like. • Offline library: download deep history and nature packs for dozens of U.S. cities plus London and Paris, and read them with no connection at all. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. • Your location never leaves your device. Named for Pliny the Elder, who tried to write down everything worth knowing about the world. Now his namesake fits in your pocket.