![]() ![]() There are footnotes containing other nearby oddities, which would be a great help if someone was planning an Oddity Odyssey. The photos in the book are really well done and most entries have one. The book is organized by region for convenience. And that's even before America gets any coverage. I first came across it in an issue of mental_floss and was lucky enough to score a copy for Christmas.Ītlas Obscura has a lot of information on bizarre places around the world crammed into it's 400+ pages, from a penis museum in Iceland to a graveyard in northern Iran with penis-shaped tombstones, to other strange places that have little or nothing to do with penises, like pyramids in the northern part of Sudan or a baobob tree in South Africa with a bar inside. I've been a fan of road trips almost as long as I've been an obscure facts nerd. Atlas Obscura has a lot of information on bizarre places around the world crammed into it's 400+ pages, from a penis museum in Iceland to a graveyard in northern Iran with penis-shaped tombstones, to other strange place Atlas Obscura is a guide to the world's strangest places. I first came across it in an issue of mental_floss and was lucky enough to score a copy for Christmas. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book you can open anywhere.Ītlas Obscura is a guide to the world's strangest places. ![]() Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan’s 45-year hole of fire called the Door of Hell, coffins hanging off a side of a cliff in the Philippines, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England.Ītlas Obscura revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden, and the mysterious. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Here are natural wonders-the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that’s so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Escher-like stepwells i Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 600 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 600 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.
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