Alban (@flightmussy), whose whole Product Hunt bio is "creating stuff for fun," built Detourmap: one interactive map of 70,000 places pulled from Wikidata, from waterfalls and catacombs to 584 ghost towns, each ranked on a fame scale that runs from world-famous down to hidden gem. Free, no account, no ads.
🔥 Our Take: Google Maps knows every one of these places and will never show them to you, because it ranks by popularity and popularity is a loop: famous places get the pins, the pins keep them famous. Detourmap's fame filter breaks the loop. Narrow it to hidden gems and the Eiffel Tower vanishes while a Soviet mining town on Svalbard stays. One commenter lost twenty minutes wandering Romanian castles. The whole dataset is downloadable and public domain. This is the good kind of internet.