Collections
Ways into the catalogue
There are 2,011 places on the map and most of them only came up once. These collections are curated routes through that long tail, 9 editorial lenses, each gathering the entries that belong together so you can browse by mood rather than by pin.
Cabinets of curiosity
Museums of the Strange
No Such Thing As A Fish runs on the kind of fact you'd find on a museum label nobody else reads. Here are the institutions the panel keeps wandering into: the grand, the niche, and the gloriously specific.
Planets, moons & the vacuum beyond
Other Worlds
The panel's curiosity doesn't stop at the atmosphere. These are the places the show wandered to that aren't on Earth at all: the planets, a demoted dwarf, our own Moon and the galaxy that holds the lot, pinned to the top of the map because the sea runs out long before they do.
Cathedrals, chapels & the holy-ish
Hallowed Ground
Abbeys, cathedrals, temples and at least one Satanic one. Wherever the sacred turns up on the show it tends to drag a very unsacred fact along behind it.
Where the crowd gathers
Stages, Screens & Stadiums
Theatres, opera houses, arenas and awards ceremonies, the rooms built for an audience. Soho Theatre, where the show itself is recorded, gets to sit at the top.
Towers, palaces & grisly history
Monuments & the Macabre
The landmarks everyone knows, plus the dark corners of how they got here: the Tower of London, the Great Fire, a battle or two, and the buildings that watched it all happen.
Specks in a very large sea
Islands & Outposts
Remote rocks, lonely atolls and islands with absurd names. The further a place is from anywhere, the more likely the panel has an oddly specific story about it.
Universities, colleges & schools
Dreaming Spires & Odd Academies
Where the facts are manufactured. Oxbridge, the Ivy League and the research labs the show loves to quote, the institutions that exist to know things, which is rather the point.
Mountains, lakes, poles & seas
Natural Wonders
Everest to the Aral Sea, both poles, and a lake or twelve. The planet's headline geography, annotated with whatever strange thing happened there that the panel couldn't let go of.
Corporate HQs & household names
Where the Brands Live
Tupperware, Heinz, Nando's and friends. The show is forever explaining how some everyday product came to be, so here are the companies, pinned to the places they call home.