Weird Travels

Drive into the strange side of the Pacific Northwest with Weird Oregon Highway 101 Stories — a hilarious, fascinating, and unforgettable journey down one of America’s wildest coastal roads. From fog-covered fishing towns and haunted lighthouses to exploding whales, sea monster legends, giant waves, hidden beaches, creepy shipwrecks, quirky locals, roadside oddities, and barking sea lions, this book uncovers the weird, funny, and mysterious side of Oregon’s legendary coast. Travel Highway 101 through Astoria, Cannon Beach, Newport, Florence, Bandon, Brookings, and dozens of strange ...

Switzerland is too pretty to be this weird. Most travelers know Switzerland for clean trains, chocolate, watches, mountain villages, lake views, and scenery that looks like it was personally arranged by a very organized postcard committee. But behind the perfect alpine beauty is a much stranger country: baby-eating fountains, dragon caves, castle dungeons, chocolate cauldrons, ancient organs, witch-trial history, haunted weather, alien art bars, engine-free ferries, broken mountain ropes, and train routes that seem to laugh at gravity. Weird Switzerland Travel is a humorous, story-rich ...

Rome was not built in a day, but it has been blocking traffic ever since. Welcome to a city where emperors fought as gladiators, sacred chickens influenced military decisions, sewer covers judged liars, and anonymous statues insulted popes before social media made public humiliation convenient. Weird Rome Travel takes you beyond the standard ruins-and-gelato tour and into the stranger side of the Eternal City. Wander through the Colosseum and Roman Forum, descend beneath churches into forgotten temples, follow a papal escape passage to Castel Sant’Angelo, and meet the cats now ruling the ...

America is turning 250, and somehow the party includes cracked bells, haunted taverns, giant president heads, battlefield ghosts, roadside diners, patriotic gift shops, and one suspicious cannon nobody fully trusts. Weird America 250 is a funny, strange, story-packed road trip through the odd places, dramatic legends, historic landmarks, and bizarre tourist traditions that helped shape the United States. This is not a dry textbook or a stiff patriotic lecture. It is a lively travel-guide-style journey through the country’s most memorable historic stops, from Philadelphia’s Independence ...

Paris is beautiful. Paris is romantic. Paris is elegant. Paris is also sitting on top of millions of bones, haunted by centuries of bad decisions, and packed with enough strange history to make the Eiffel Tower look positively normal. Weird Paris Travel takes you beyond the postcard version of the City of Light and into the catacombs, cemeteries, revolutionary squares, secret passages, haunted neighborhoods, bizarre museums, royal scandals, forgotten tunnels, and wonderfully odd corners that give Paris its darker—and much more entertaining—personality. Wander through underground ...

Think you know New York City? Think again. Beyond the skyline, Broadway lights, pizza slices, and famous landmarks, New York is packed with strange stories, haunted corners, forgotten tunnels, bizarre museums, gangster lore, movie locations, giant sandwiches, cemetery parrots, and enough weird history to make even lifelong New Yorkers look twice. Weird New York City Travel Guide is a funny, story-rich guide to the Big Apple’s oddest sights, neighborhoods, legends, and local surprises. This is not a dry travel guide or a boring checklist of tourist stops. It is a lively trip through the ...

Zermatt may be car-free, but it is definitely not normal. Beneath the Matterhorn’s famous silhouette is a Swiss mountain village filled with electric taxis, rescue helicopters, mouse-proof barns, traffic-stopping goats, GPS-tracked sheep, underground funiculars, tiny trams, glacier tunnels, Victorian climbing rivalries, and a cable-car route that lets travelers eat lunch in Italy and return to Switzerland for dinner. Weird Zermatt Travel goes far beyond the usual postcard views. Discover the broken rope that helped create the Matterhorn legend, the women who raced toward the summit in ...

Weird Route 66 Stories: A Funny Travel Guide to the Mother Road’s Strangest Stops, Roadside Legends, Neon Diners, Ghost Towns & Desert Oddities Take a hilarious and fascinating journey down America’s most iconic highway! Weird Route 66 Stories blends travel humor, history, and adventure into one unforgettable guide to the strangest sights along the Mother Road. From haunted motels and neon diners to ghost towns and desert oddities, this book uncovers the quirky, mysterious, and downright bizarre side of Route 66. It’s perfect for readers who love funny travel writing, road trip ...

Weird Yellowstone Stories Strange Tales, Bizarre History & Fascinating Places Around America’s Most Famous National Park Welcome to the wildest side of Yellowstone. Beyond the geysers, bison, and postcard-perfect scenery lies a stranger world filled with bizarre true stories, mysterious disappearances, deadly hot springs, unusual wildlife encounters, haunted legends, eccentric explorers, outlaw history, strange natural phenomena, and weird roadside attractions scattered throughout the Yellowstone region. In Weird Yellowstone Stories, you’ll uncover the fascinating tales most tourists ...

They shouldn't have tear gassed best-selling (bald) author Adam Fletcher. It ruined his supposedly normal holiday in Istanbul, made him curious, and began a quest to visit places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally go to. In this hilarious travel memoir, he'll enter a blizzard in China armed with only biscuits; pose as a scientist to sneak into Chernobyl; be chased by Croatian police boats en route to Liberland (the world's newest country); become a reluctant diving board star in a North Korean water park, and much more.

Glacier National Park may be famous for mountains, waterfalls, wildlife, and one of the most dramatic roads in America, but the real story gets much stranger. Weird Glacier National Park and Montana takes readers beyond the postcard views and into a world of haunted lodges, mountain goats invading parking lots, historic red buses driven by people called Jammers, a giant penguin advertising brutal cold, a lake monster nobody has photographed clearly, and an island where wild horses live in the middle of an enormous mountain lake. Travel Going-to-the-Sun Road, explore Lake McDonald’s ...

Step off the plane, leave your Rhine river cruise, or arrive at a Swiss station with a suitcase—and know exactly what to do next. Weird Switzerland by Train is a practical, beginner-friendly guide to exploring Switzerland without a car. It explains the nuts and bolts of Swiss rail travel in clear, simple language, while still giving experienced travelers useful ways to save time, avoid stress, and travel more comfortably. Learn how to choose the right rail pass, use station help offices, read departure boards, find the correct platform, understand onboard displays, manage luggage, use ...

America’s highways are haunted, and the ghosts have excellent tourist infrastructure. Take an unforgettable road trip through the strangest, creepiest, and most legendary places in the country. Explore haunted hotels, foggy cemeteries, abandoned mining towns, historic battlefields, eerie lighthouses, notorious prisons, ghostly ships, Route 66 ruins, and old buildings where the past apparently refuses to check out. Along the way, discover the chilling stories behind Salem, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, Savannah, New Orleans, Tombstone, Alcatraz, the Queen Mary, the Stanley Hotel, and many ...

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to...

Wild horses galloping beside beach houses. A lighthouse moved nearly half a mile. A vanished colony, a headless pirate, ghost lights, shipwrecks rising from the sand, and a highway that occasionally wakes up in the Atlantic Ocean. Welcome to the Outer Banks, where North Carolina packed several centuries of strange history onto a ribbon of sand and trusted the weather not to rearrange it before lunch. Weird Outer Banks and the North Carolina Coast takes readers on a funny, story-driven journey from Corolla and Kitty Hawk to Hatteras, Ocracoke, Beaufort, Cape Lookout, Wilmington, and Bald ...

Rhode Island may be America’s smallest state, but it has a talent for collecting weird stories like a haunted attic collects dust. Inside Weird Rhode Island, you’ll take an oddball road trip through vampire graves, haunted mansions, Lovecraft landmarks, pirate history, shipwreck legends, eerie cemeteries, old mill towns, strange coastal roads, and local food traditions that sound fake until someone hands you coffee milk. This is not a normal Rhode Island travel guide. Yes, you’ll find real towns, scenic stops, historic places, coastal drives, cemeteries, lighthouses, villages, ...

Discover the strange side of paradise. Hawaii is famous for beaches, sunsets, waterfalls, and resort views that look almost too perfect to be real. But behind the postcard version is a much weirder Hawaii—one filled with active volcanoes, haunted legends, royal history, movie jungles, sacred valleys, strange food stories, old sugar towns, lava roads, colorful beaches, and chickens that seem to run parts of Kauai with suspicious confidence. Weird Hawaii takes readers across Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island in a funny, story-rich travel guide to the islands’ most unusual places and ...

Weird Louisiana Road Trip Stories takes readers on a funny, strange, and story-packed ride through the most haunted, spicy, swampy, and wonderfully unpredictable corners of Louisiana. This is not a normal travel guide. It is a road trip through French Quarter ghost stories, above-ground cemeteries, Marie Laveau legends, pirate swamps, haunted plantations, Cajun dance halls, rural Mardi Gras chicken chasing, hot sauce history, bayou monsters, frog towns, outlaw roads, and food stops so good they can destroy a schedule and a waistband at the same time. Inside, readers will explore New Orleans...

Washington State looks peaceful from a distance. Mountains. Ferries. Coffee. Forests. Islands. Rain jackets. Salmon. Nice people pretending drizzle is not weather. Then you start driving around and things get strange fast. There is a giant troll living under a Seattle bridge. Pike Place Market has ghost stories, flying fish, and a wall covered in chewed gum. Mount St. Helens exploded, changed the shape of a mountain, and left behind volcanic landscapes, buried houses, lava caves, and enough Bigfoot lore to make every forest shadow suspicious. Forks turned rainy weather into vampire tourism....

Are you ready to step into the wonderfully strange and enchanting world of Japan? This book is your ultimate guide to uncovering the hidden, bizarre, and fascinating facts about Japan’s rich culture, quirky history, and unique everyday life. From the bustling streets of Tokyo to the serene temples of Kyoto, 100 Weird Fun Facts About Japan will take you on an unforgettable journey through a country where the unusual is celebrated, and the beautiful is often unexpected! Packed with fun facts, eye-opening insights, and delightful surprises, this book explores the weird, wonderful, and ...