It's hard to pick one, so instead I'll pick the best I've ever given. It's impossible to find a gift for my dad, he buys whatever he wants. At one point when I

It's hard to pick one, so instead I'll pick the best I've ever given. It's impossible to find a gift for my dad, he buys whatever he wants. At one point when I was in college he was really into old maps and spoke about a specific one at a store where California was depicted as an island from ~1700s. He also used to get really animated talking about the place-names of early California, like Earthquake Bay and other scary names, he joked that California did a great job of marketing during the Gold Rush. I had to borrow some money to afford it, but it was so timely and exactly the kind of thing he wouldn't buy for himself, and ended up buying the map for ~$1500. It was worth every penny. I also learned that of course we knew California wasn't an island by then, but folks still liked having maps to display that showed it as such as a tongue in cheek bit of fun. I let my dad pay the cost of putting the thing in a UV protected frame though! For a quick look at maps like that: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb871zd0767 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb871zd0767