Freakishly Creative Ways to Tell a Story

A collection of interactive stories, charts and maps by The New York Times in 2013.

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With The Haunted Man, Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan transcends the cosmic fairy tales of her past to uncover an ecstatic peace within herself. It wasn't easy.

An interactive look at what happened in Friday's crane collapse.

Draw a stickman and watch him come to life in this new stickman adventure!

It was hundreds of years ago, no one knows for sure exactly how long, that our ancestors began creating the Citadel we know today. Thousands of people would line the bustling streets and alleys selling their goods and services.

Every Last Drop is an interactive website which takes a detailed look at how much water we waste on a daily basis and how small changes can make a big difference.

Take a tour through the Evolution of Social Collaboration as we make stops in every decade from the 1950s to present day.

What happened to the family that hid in the water? The Holmes family speak exclusively to the Guardian in a multimedia journey exploring what happened the day fire devastated their town

Enter the world of Game of Thrones with official maps of the Seven Kingdoms and interactive family trees that capture the rich backgrounds of the characters and locations featured in the HBO series.

Victory's price: Death, misery You're reading this story on an outdated browser, which means we can't show you everything. Download current versions of Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer for the full multimedia experience. Just south of Gettysburg, a young soldier named John Nevin leads a Pennsylvania regiment across fields freshly scarred by a horrifically violent, three-day clash between two great armies.

A webtime story

What are your hopes for the Obama administration? The New York Times asked more than 200 people in 14 states (half red, half blue) to identify their greatest hopes for what Barack Obama might accomplish during his time as president. We grouped their responses into the 29 "hopes" below.

An interactive animation explaining Inception, the movie. We summarize the plot in an easy to follow animated infographic for those who found the film confusing!

An interactive map of the more than 4,000-mile-long Iron Curtain, illustrating the changes since the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, two photographers, two journalists, a director, and a cartoonist traveled along the more than 4,000-mile-long Iron Curtain that split Eastern and Western Europe from the end of the Second World War until 1989.

The forces of gravity are pulling equally in all directions and you are now weightless. But don't get too comfortable. It's over 6,000C here - you were cooked long ago. The distance to the centre of the Earth has been taken as the volumetric mean radius of the Earth: 6,371km.

NASA: Prospect

Constant video surveillance, satellite tracking, radio collars… sometimes it’s hard to tell where the wired world ends and the wild one begins - Bear 71

Imagine your hometown never changed. That no one ever grew old or moved on. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point unearths a place frozen in time and discovers what happens when an entire community is erased from the map.

The Times's David W. Dunlap describes how the new World Trade Center complex is taking shape.