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

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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. For example, visit the site of the Tunguska event in Siberia, where a meteor slammed into the earth in 1908—and then skip over to the Yucatan, ground zero for the ancient meteor crash that caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

The book not only features factoids about each of these sights, but also its longitude and latitude, geographical attributes and cool trivia. Dylan lives in Rosendale, NY with his wife Michelle, his three year old son Phineas, and the brand new addition to the household, his daughter Jean. This unbiased review is based upon a complimentary copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.I skipped ahead to the bit about California and read something about the city of Guadalupe being in the Colorado Desert. More cabinet of curiosities than traditional guidebook, Atlas Obscura revels in the unexpected, the overlooked, the bizarre, and the mysterious. The descriptions are enticing and make you want to visit those fascinating and intriguing places but - most of them are simply not doable for kids, not even the most adventurous ones.

The presence of an entry in the Atlas must not be read as encouragement, a promise of availability, or any guarantee of safety.Dylan has spoken at conferences including SXSW, and the New Yorker Festival about discovery, wonder, and changing nature of travel. Foer sold his first book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, to Penguin for publication in March 2011. My husband was given one as a gift and as he enjoys it so much we bought one as a gift for a good friend and he too is enjoying it. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain—and no, it’s not the babies doing the jumping, but masked men dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming infants. Something that is just as rich and full of history as the Roman colosseum or the great pyramids or the Eiffel Tower.