World Explorer

History happened
somewhere, and all at once.

How this is made →

An article tells you one thing at a time. It never tells you what was around it, or what else was going on that year. Erask does both: pick a year and watch the whole world in it, or open a place and follow it to everything it touches — on a real 3D globe, out of Wikipedia, with nothing to sign up for.

90+place categories
22curated stories
1in the making
∞places to discover
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Why it exists

Two things an article
never tells you.

01 What was around it

You read about Krakatoa. The article mentions the Sunda Strait, the island of Panaitan the wave emptied, and Rodrigues — nearly five thousand kilometres away, in the section about how far the sound carried. They stay words in a paragraph. Put them on a globe and the distance becomes the story.

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02 What else was going on

You read about Waterloo, June 1815. In the same year the Congress of Vienna was redrawing Europe, and Mount Tambora had just erupted — the eruption that took the summer away. Nothing connects them except the year, and that turns out to be enough.

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Wikipedia knows where everything is, and it knows when everything happened. It just never shows you both at once.

What you can do

Four ways in.

Two of them start from time, two from place. All four end on the same globe.

Start fromWhat you get
A yearTimed sync The whole world in one year, on the globe at once — what happened, what ended, what was already under way. Try 1492, or 1815. → An articleRabbit hole Every place that article mentions, grouped by the part of it each comes from. Pick one and do it again — the trail fits inside a link. → A placeExplore here Everything remarkable around a point, in ninety categories and ordered by century: a valley stops being a name and becomes a sequence. → A subjectMake a story Place the articles yourself, or name the subject and let a model draft it in a minute. Either way it comes out as a link that plays on the same globe — and a link somebody sends you is one you can open and change. →
Stories

History, playing out
on the globe.

A story is a chosen path through Wikipedia. Press play and dozens of places light up in the order it happened — a legion moving north, a merchant crossing Asia, a century of detonations — each one a tap away from the article that tells it. Chosen by hand, and every date and place checked before it ships.

Erask — Marco Polo’s route drawing itself across Asia in Story mode
A timeline you drive

Scrub through the years, pause on a turning point, or run it at 1× to 8×. The date on screen is the date on the globe.

Routes that draw themselves

Journeys trace their path leg by leg, a moving point at the head of the line — twenty-four years of Marco Polo in under a minute.

Chosen, then checked

Dozens of moments picked out of thousands, and every date and place verified against a table decided in advance — by a generator that refuses to publish when the check fails.

Every event is an article

Battles, sieges, landfalls and tests appear as markers sized by scale. Tap one and Wikipedia opens on that exact moment in history.

325,000 BC – AD 1400

Out of Africa

How one species took the whole planet, 300,000 BC – AD 1300

95 eventsEarth & Nature
 1271 – 1299

Marco Polo's Travels

Venice to Xanadu and back, 1271–1295

44 eventsExploration
 1860 – 1865

The American Civil War

One country, torn in two and taken back battle by battle, 1860–1865

382 eventsWars & Empires

See all 22 stories → · 1 more in the making

The Globe

A real Earth,
rendered like a jewel.

Not a flat map. A hand-crafted 3D globe with GPU-shaded mountain relief from NASA elevation data, precise vector coastlines, thousands of islands and cities that fade in as you fly closer. Drop a base to see what is around you — then follow any article to everything it mentions that sits somewhere on the map, one hop at a time.

3D mountain relief

Real elevation, shaded in real time on the GPU. The Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya cast their ridges across the sphere.

Drop a base anywhere

One tap on “Explore here” scans the area through Wikidata and reveals every notable place around your point — instantly.

90+ categories of places

Castles, cathedrals, volcanoes, glaciers, beaches, historical battles, sieges and expeditions. If it mattered, it’s on the globe.

Photos & stories built in

Every place opens a gallery from Wikimedia Commons and the full article on Wikipedia, with the photographs and the text that go with it.

Curated stories

Hand-built timelines that play out on the globe, each one researched against its sources — and every event links to the article behind it.

Erask — the 3D globe with a base dropped
Install

Add Erask to your home screen.

Erask is a Progressive Web App — no app store, no download. It runs right in your browser; installing simply adds an icon and lets it open full-screen and work offline.

AndroidChrome
  1. Open Erask in Chrome.
  2. Tap the ⋮ menu (or the “Install” banner that appears).
  3. Choose Install app — it lands on your home screen.
iPhone & iPadSafari
  1. Open Erask in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an up-arrow).
  3. Scroll and choose Add to Home Screen.
DesktopChrome / Edge
  1. Open Erask in Chrome or Edge.
  2. Click the install icon in the address bar.
  3. Click Install — it opens in its own window.
Prefer not to install? Just tap Open Erask and use it straight in the browser — everything works the same. Your bases and favorites are saved on your device either way.
Open knowledge

Powered by the world’s greatest library.

Every article, photo and date in Erask comes from Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons — the free knowledge projects built by millions of volunteers. Read the full credits →

Wikipedia Wikidata Wikimedia Commons Natural Earth NASA SRTM
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Erask · World Explorer

Your next discovery is
already on the globe.

Free, lightweight, and endlessly curious — just like you. No store, no sign-up.

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