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About the author
Atlas Obscura is the definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders. Based on the community-driven, editor-curated website atlasobscura.com, Atlas Obscura uncovers unusual and overlooked places not found in your average guidebook. Cofounders Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras are two of the authors of the # 1 New York Times bestselling book Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders.
Summary
A lavishly illustrated travel-lover’s calendar of more than 300 eccentric destinations.
It’s a year of amazing destinations, quirky events, and fascinating global phenomena for travelers, adventurers, and lovers of the offbeat and obscure that’s the expertise of Atlas Obscura, the hugely popular website and #1 New York Times bestselling book. Discover North Carolina’s 400-year-old Mother Vine, believed to be the oldest grapevine in North America. The towering summit of Fanjingshan, the highest peak of the Wuling Mountains—reachable by cable car or an 8,000+ step climb. Lincoln, New Hampshire’s ethereal ice castles, composed of icicles formed by water
dripping out of specially placed pipes. Plus the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games, a taste of 1920s Shanghai at the Peace Hotel Jazz Bar, and Sri Lanka’s biggest Buddha (reachable through the Tunnel of Hell). Every day is more curious than the last. Printed on FSC-certified paper and 100% recyclable.
