Joshua Foer is the cofounder and chairman of Atlas
Obscura. He is also the author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The
Art and Science of Remembering Everything, a bestseller published
in 33 languages, and a forthcoming book about the world's last
hunter-gatherers.
Ella Morton is a New Zealand-born, Australia-raised,
Brooklyn-based writer, focusing on overlooked aspects of history
and culture. After covering consumer technology at CNET she hosted
Rocketboom NYC, a web show about New York’s quirkier people and
places. Her most popular interview was a chat with Cookie Monster
on the set of Sesame Street. Ella was associate editor at
AtlasObscura.com, where she wrote about such topics as tobacco
smoke enemas, Victorian streaming music services, and the etiquette
of marrying a ghost.
Dylan Thuras is the cofounder and creative director of Atlas
Obscura. He is also the coauthor of The Atlas Obscura
Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid.
“The Second Edition of Atlas Obscura is a hefty book but one that
the world traveler in your life will love. There are hidden gems
with over 100 more places added from the original. Travel through
Budapest, Moscow, Tokyo, and more with the turn of the page and
showcase all the curiosities this world holds.” — The Daily
Beast
“Beholding hundreds of off-the-beaten-path gems, this book is a
treasure chest of wanderlust where readers are transported to
places they’re certain to have never encountered.” — Marie
Claire
“The second edition of “Atlas Obscura” is a gift so enthralling
that it may draw the recipient into a kind of extended trance.
Crammed fore-to-aft with “the world’s hidden wonders,” this
collaboration by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton features
mesmerizing photos, maps, drawings, info and addresses. On one page
there’s a Thai monk standing in saffron serenity in a village
temple built of brown and green beer bottles; on another a bust of
Vladimir Lenin, erected in 1958 by Soviet scientists who made it to
Antarctica’s “Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.” If you can get
there (the authors have advice about that), you may find, depending
on the weather, only the top of the tyrant’s head poking from the
snow.” — Wall Street Journal
"Satisfy your wanderlust and plan your next travel adventure with
the help of this brilliantly illustrated guide." —Car and
Driver Magazine
Praise for the first edition of Atlas Obscura:An Explorer's Guide
to the World's Hidden Wonders
“A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper” —The New
York Times
“This book is as curious and enthralling as the world it
covers. Each page reveals some hidden realm—a realm that is
frightening, or funny, or magical, or simply mad, but that always
leaves the reader in wonder.”
—DAVID GRANN, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
“I thought I had seen most of the interesting bits of the
world. Atlas Obscura showed me that I was wrong. It's the
kind of book that makes you want to pack in your workaday life and
head out to places you'd never have dreamed of going, to see things
you could not even have imagined. A joy to read and to reread.”
—NEIL GAIMAN, author of Sandman and American
Gods
“Atlas Obscura is a joyful antidote to the creeping suspicion
that travel these days is little more than a homogenized corporate
shopping opportunity. Here are hundreds of surprising, perplexing,
mind-blowing, inspiring reasons to travel a day longer and farther
off the path. . . . Bestest travel guide ever.”
—MARY ROACH, author of Stiff and Gulp
“My favorite travel guide! Never start a trip without knowing
where a haunted hotel or a mouth of hell is!”
—GUILLERMO DEL TORO, filmmaker, Pan’s Labyrinth
“Fair warning: It's addictive.” —NPR, “Cosmos Culture”
“In this gorgeous collection, the celebrated Atlas Obscura website
is condensed into 480 pages of awe-inspiring destinations. For
lovers of history and exploration, the striking color photographs
will spark immediate wanderlust.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Odds are you won’t get past three pages without being amazed at
something truly strange that you didn’t know existed.” —San
Francisco Chronicle
“Richly illustrated, delightfully strange, this compendium of
off-beat destinations should spark many adventures, both
terrestrial and imaginary.” —Boston Globe
“This book is PACKED with wonderful, amazing, fascinating places
all around the world. This is the perfect gift for the person who
thinks they’ve done it all and seen it all because this shows that
there’s so much more in the world to explore. It’s a wonderful,
wonderful coffee table book.” —NBC, “TODAY”
“A perfect tome for the armchair explorer and the actual traveler
alike.” —Austin American Statesman
“Whether describing a Canadian museum that showcases world history
through shoes, a pet-casket company that will also sell you a unit
for your severed limb, a Greek snake festival, or a place in the
Canary Islands where inhabitants communicate through whistling, the
authors have compiled an enthralling range of oddities. Featuring
full-color illustrations, this hefty and gorgeously produced tome
will be eagerly pored over by readers of many ages and fans of the
original website.”—Booklist (Starred Review)
“If this compendium of the weirdest, wackiest, and most wonderful
destinations on the planet doesn't fill you with insatiable
wanderlust, then you need to check your pulse.” —mental_floss
“This is the fun way, a deep dive (sometimes literally) into places
you’d never find otherwise, the weird and wild wonders of the
world.” —WIRED
“The book is for people who prefer to live like locals when they
travel, seek out new cultures on vacation, or just prefer the
weirdness of history to traditional by-the-book experiences. Even
if you can’t travel, Atlas Obscura is a window into
places you’d otherwise never know existed.” —lifehacker
“A travel guide for the most adventurous of tourists . . . a
wonderful browse [for] armchair travelers who enjoyed Brandon
Stanton’s Humans of New York and Frank
Warren’s PostSecret.” —Library Journal
“The most addictive book of the year.” —Colin McEnroe, WNPR
Praise for the second edition of Atlas Obscura:An Explorer's Guide
to the World's Hidden Wonders
“The Second Edition of Atlas Obscura is a hefty book but one that
the world traveler in your life will love. There are hidden gems
with over 100 more places added from the original. Travel through
Budapest, Moscow, Tokyo, and more with the turn of the page and
showcase all the curiosities this world holds.” — The Daily
Beast
“Beholding hundreds of off-the-beaten-path gems, this book is a
treasure chest of wanderlust where readers are transported to
places they’re certain to have never encountered.” — Marie
Claire
“The second edition of “Atlas Obscura” is a gift so enthralling
that it may draw the recipient into a kind of extended trance.
Crammed fore-to-aft with “the world’s hidden wonders,” this
collaboration by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton features
mesmerizing photos, maps, drawings, info and addresses. On one page
there’s a Thai monk standing in saffron serenity in a village
temple built of brown and green beer bottles; on another a bust of
Vladimir Lenin, erected in 1958 by Soviet scientists who made it to
Antarctica’s “Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.” If you can get
there (the authors have advice about that), you may find, depending
on the weather, only the top of the tyrant’s head poking from the
snow.” — Wall Street Journal
"Satisfy your wanderlust and plan your next travel adventure with
the help of this brilliantly illustrated guide." —Car and
Driver Magazine
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