Blog from Stampie
Travel guides, journal ideas, and stories from the places worth remembering.
German states checklist: how many of the 16 Bundesländer have you visited?
An interactive German states checklist you can tick off and save. Track all 16 Bundesländer you've visited, see your count and percentage, and color them in on a free Germany map.
U.S. states checklist: how many of the 50 have you visited?
An interactive U.S. states checklist you can tick off and save. Track all 50 states you've visited, see your count and percentage, and color them in on a free states map.
Seven Wonders of the World checklist: have you seen all 7 (plus Giza)?
The New Seven Wonders of the World, with an interactive checklist you can tick off and save. Track all seven, plus the bonus Great Pyramid of Giza, and see how many you've already seen.
A short history of passport stamps (and why they're disappearing)
From Persian letters of safe passage in 450 BCE to the EU's Entry/Exit System ending stamps in 2026, the small ritual at the border has a much older story than the booklet it lives in.
What to do with your old passport stamps: 7 creative ideas
Your expired passport is a tiny museum of where you've been. Here are seven ways to preserve, display, or transform old passport stamps into something you'll actually keep.
Why didn't my passport get stamped? A country-by-country guide (2026)
More than a dozen countries have stopped stamping tourist passports by default, and 29 European countries just joined them. Here's who stopped, when, and what to do if you collect stamps.