The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The text, beautifully written by Dylan Thuras and Rosemary Mosco unfurls your imagination over 100 pages of quirky, curious places and facts hidden in the nooks and crannies of our amazing planet. is another wunderkammer—this one focused on real medical oddities—that will leave you, as they say, "disturbingly informed.

It is not even focused on pictures, photography in the book and the site is very light, it’s not that kinda travel blog, one to five modest-res pictures will suffice, and you can imagine the rest.

Thuras and Foer met in 2007, and soon discussed ideas for a different kind of atlas, featuring places not commonly found in guidebooks. In addition, the second edition includes a full-colour gatefold Atlas Obscura road trip map, with a dream itinerary.

Fancy a world tour of the astoundingly high number of bone churches currently welcoming visitors (yes churches made ENTIRELY of bones)?It brought on discussions on just how fascinating the world is, and how people should take the time to appreciate the natural wonders. My only other complaint about this book is I wish real life pictures were used for at least some of the locations instea Compiled from elements of a decades-old online project that's still going on, this printed version of the Atlas Obscura is a big, beautiful compendium that spans every continent (yes, including Antarctica) to showcase the unusual, the endangered, the dangerous and the just plain weird.