Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders

Discover surprise.

“A wanderlust-whetting cupboard of curiosities on paper.”— New York Times

Inspiring equivalent portions surprise and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a commute e-book that shot to the highest of bestseller lists whilst it used to be first revealed and altered the best way we take into accounts the arena, increasing our experience of the way ordinary and excellent it in point of fact is.

This 2d version takes readers to much more curious and ordinary locations, with greater than 100 new puts, dozens and dozens of recent images, and very unique options: twelve Town courses, masking Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, Mexico Town, Moscow, New York Town, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Plus a foldout map with a dream itinerary for without equal round-the-international highway travel. Extra a cupboard of curiosities than conventional guidebook, Atlas Obscura revels within the surprising, the lost sight of, the ordinary, and the mysterious. Listed here are herbal wonders, just like the fabulous glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa so huge it has a pub inside of the place 15 folks can sit down and drink without problems. Architectural marvels, together with the M. C. Escher–like stepwells in India. Thoughts-boggling occasions, just like the Child-Leaping Pageant in Spain—and no, it’s now not the small children doing the Leaping, However masked males dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming babies.

Each and every web page will get to the very middle of why people wish to commute within the first position: to be overjoyed and disoriented, uprooted from the acquainted and surprised by means of the brand new. With its compelling descriptions, masses of images, sudden charts, maps for Each and every area of the arena, and new Town courses, this can be a e-book you’ll open anyplace and be transported. However continue with warning: It’s nearly inconceivable to not flip to the following access, and the following, and the following.