Joshua Foer

Ella Morton

Dylan Thuras

It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: 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. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Atlas Obscura

Creada en 2009 por Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras y Ella Morton, la página web ATLAS OBSCURA rápidamente se convirtió en un éxito. Este libro, inspirado en la web, recoge un catálogo de sitios, personajes, leyendas e historias inesperadas, olvidadas, desconocidas y, más fascinante aún, misteriosas. Cada página nos recuerda cómo de extraño y maravilloso es el mundo en que vivimos. Descripciones vívidas, cientos de fotografías, mapas y gráficos sorprendentes para cada región del mundo son algunos de los elementos de este libro para explorar hasta el último y más recóndito rincón del mundo y conocer lugares e historias que no creerías que podían existir.

365 lugares increíbles que casi nadie conoce

Atlas Obscura : 365 lugares increíbles que casi nadie conoce

Dan Kainen

Embark on an eye-opening adventure in the land Down Under, and see eight creatures in astounding motion. From the New York Times bestselling series. Using Photicular® technology that’s like a 3-D movie on the page, OUTBACK whisks you to the vast, remote world of wild Australia, where heat waves dance forever and animals, isolated by the vagaries of continental drift, are unlike those found anywhere else on Earth. Each moving image delivers a rich, immersive visual experience—and the result is breathtaking. The kangaroo hops. A wombat waddles. The frilled lizard races on two legs across the desert floor. A peacock spider dances and shows off its vibrant colors. Experience it for yourself!

Ella Morton

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