Nautical Lake Art

Five minutes of care, a few things to avoid, and your map looks the way it did on day one.

1,645 feet deep, 63 streams in and one river out. Nine facts about Lake Tahoe.

Both are 3D, both are layered Baltic birch. Here is how they differ, and how to choose.

12 × 16, 16 × 20 or 24.5 × 31? Three measurements that make the choice easy, room by room.

Houghton Lake averages 9 feet. Torch Lake drops to about 300. A tour of Michigan's best-loved lakes, bays and islands, and the wood map of each.

Crater Lake, Lake Tahoe, Lake Chelan and Lake Superior: how deep they go, and how they got that way.

Superior drops to 1,332 feet, Erie to 210. The five lakes by depth, plus a few facts worth knowing.

Over the mantel, down the hall, up the stairs, and the lighting trick that makes the layers pop.

A hurricane, a Spanish treasure fleet and a beachcomber with a metal detector. The story behind the name.

A volcano collapsed, the sky filled the hole, and the result is 1,943 feet deep.

Tide clocks, cribbage boards, puzzles and 3D wood maps of the water they love, sorted by budget.

120 miles long, 400 feet at its deepest, more than 70 islands. Lake Champlain up close.