Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders: 1

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Mir hat auch sehr gut gefallen, dass eine Packliste dabei ist, was kleine und große Entdecker auf ihrer Reise benötigen. Para curiosos de los lugares tétricos y con historia de cada país, esta guía resultará bastante util: cementerios, fábricas, ruinas detenidas en el tiempo, túneles, refugios. The goal is to expose a side of the world that is normally invisible to both tourists and locals alike. Ich hatte jede Menge Spaß beim Lesen und war immer wieder überrascht, was denn so wunderbar Obskures auf unserer Erde zu finden ist.

Foer is married to Dinah Herlands, a medical student at Yale, whom he met while an undergraduate at Yale. And there is everything that you could imagine in here; diamond encrusted skeletons, museums of strange things, buildings, boats, caves full of glow-worms, scrap sculptures and even car henge.Furthermore, there are travel instructions and guides especially on sites that are otherwise inaccessible to local transport.

This is an exquisite book that shows the more interesting part of the world that those mainstream guidebooks don't go near, which is a shame as some of these places deserve a visit. It’s much easier to imagine how huge a blue whale is when you discover it’s longer than two city buses. Danach folgt eine kleine Packliste, was man so alles braucht, um die Welt zu entdecken, dies fand ich eine witzige Idee. Many of the landmarks in Atlas Obscura are significantly less accessible—even if you're a wealthy and seasoned world traveler, even if you happen to be in the same country (or even on the same continent) they're in, or near.No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. But proceed with caution: Its almost impossible not to turn to the next entry, and the next, and the next.