Weird Travels

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 ...

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 ...

London has spent two thousand years collecting strange objects, stranger stories, and an impressive number of dead people beneath perfectly respectable buildings. WEIRD LONDON TRAVEL is a funny, fascinating journey through the British capital’s most unusual attractions, hidden histories, macabre museums, royal oddities, and wonderfully peculiar corners. This is not a dry guidebook filled with dates and sensible walking shoes. It is London with the curtains pulled back—and possibly something scratching behind them. Follow a route through Roman ruins, plague pits, haunted pubs, medieval ...

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 ...

Scotland is beautiful. Scotland is historic. Scotland is also absolutely packed with ghosts, monsters, cursed castles, grave robbers, strange legends, murderous clans, and enough supernatural trouble to make an ordinary vacation feel suspicious. WEIRD SCOTLAND TRAVEL takes you beyond the postcard version of Scotland and into the wonderfully strange stories hiding behind its castles, lochs, islands, cities, battlefields, and windswept Highlands. Explore Edinburgh’s famously haunted underground vaults. Meet the body snatchers who once supplied Scotland’s medical schools. Search the dark ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some places are famous because they are beautiful. Others are famous because somebody swears the chair kills people, the highway is cursed, the hotel has permanent guests, or the island should absolutely not be visited after dark. Welcome to WEIRD TRAVEL: CURSED PLACES, a funny, strange, and surprisingly useful journey through haunted castles, forbidden islands, deadly roads, ancient curses, ghost towns, mysterious objects, bizarre legends, and destinations where history and folklore have spent centuries arguing over who gets top billing. From the Hope Diamond and the burning town of ...

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 ...

Wales is beautiful. Wales is historic. Wales is also completely unwilling to behave normally. In WEIRD WALES TRAVEL, Guy Wann follows trains, ferries, buses, mountain railways, bicycles, and his own increasingly suspicious feet through a country packed with haunted castles, ancient curses, saints, dragons, shipwrecks, mining towns, flooded valleys, bizarre legends, and enough medieval stonework to make your knees file a complaint. This is not a standard travel guide. It is a funny, story-rich journey through the stranger side of Wales. Travel from Cardiff’s Roman walls and Victorian ...

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...

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.

Weird Michigan Road Trip Stories Discover Giant Statues, Mystery Spots, Mackinac Island, Detroit Pizza, Shipwrecks, Hidden Beaches, Haunted Legends, Scenic Drives, and Michigan's Strangest Roadside Adventures Michigan isn't just lakes and lighthouses. It's a place where giant lumberjacks stand beside the highway, mysterious lights dance through the woods, horse-drawn taxis replace cars on an entire island, and one of the world's longest suspension bridges dares you to look down. In Weird Michigan Road Trip Stories, you'll travel from Detroit to the Upper Peninsula, uncovering the state's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

South Dakota looks peaceful from the interstate. That is how it gets you. One minute, you are driving across open prairie. The next, the ground has collapsed into jagged Badlands, prairie dogs are monitoring your vehicle, a bison has taken control of traffic, and a roadside drugstore has somehow convinced you that free ice water requires several hours of shopping. Weird Black Hills and Badlands is a funny, story-driven road-trip guide to one of America’s strangest and most unforgettable regions. This is not a dry travel manual filled with stiff facts and generic recommendations. It is a ...

Weird American Bigfoot Road Trip is the ultimate guide to America's strangest Sasquatch destinations, where legendary footprints, mysterious encounters, quirky museums, giant roadside statues, and small towns that proudly embrace their hairy celebrity all become unforgettable stops on one hilarious adventure. Follow Bigfoot from the towering redwoods of Northern California to the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, through the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, across the Midwest, and deep into Appalachia. Visit the famous Patterson-Gimlin film site, stand beside the original Bluff Creek ...