Atlas Obscura. The most unusual places on the planet
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A very beautiful gift book with photographs and descriptions of more than 700 of the most unusual, unexplored, interesting places on Earth - natural and man-made.
Time to get off the beaten tourist track! The authors of the Atlas Obscura project have collected under one cover more than 700 unusual, strange, unknown, mystical, impressive, strange, curious places on Earth - natural and man-made - from all continents.
Among them are the Caves of King Zedekiah in Jerusalem; Salt man from Chekhrabad; a baobab tree in South Africa, which can accommodate an entire pub for 15 people; "Gates of Hell" in Turkmenistan; a small village in Spain where the annual festival of jumping over children takes place; ship graveyard in Bangladesh; firefly caves in New Zealand; The Kola superdeep well in the Murmansk region is the deepest in the world; the giant head of Lenin in Ulan-Ude; The Cold War Bunker Museum in Ottawa and much, much more.
Pages: 480 (coated). Hardcover Dimensions: 271x176x37 mm