My kids love maps, especially Joey.  One of their all time favorite "toys" is a map brochure of our zoo that I stuck pictures on (of them at the zoo, and of the animals) and then laminated.

I have been wanting to get a large map either of the world or the USA and put it up for them but haven't found one (maybe because I keep thinking of it and not doing it?) yet.

The other week I was in WalMart buying fabric and saw a map panel and got it.

It's kind of cartoonish and not totally in scale, but great for the kids. 

It is now up in our living room, hung on a piece of conduit and bent L brackets. Quite the designer's touch, you know.

oh I know... you wanted to see the conduit pipe and L brackets. tough. the picture that I have already loaded happens to be pre-pipe so it's temporarily on the broom.

Anyway, maps are super fun