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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the strange side of Southern California, where a simple drive from Los Angeles can lead to haunted ships, giant dinosaurs, Danish windmills, desert prophets, alien architecture, ghost towns, and an island filled with bison. Weird Day Trips from Los Angeles is a funny, story-packed travel guide to the region’s most unusual destinations. Explore Catalina Island, Solvang, Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, Pasadena, Long Beach, Laguna Beach, the Salton Sea, Calico Ghost Town, Route 66, and many more wonderfully odd places. Along the way, you’ll uncover bizarre history, local legends, ...

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 ...

Take a weird road trip along America’s most famous footpath. The Appalachian Trail looks peaceful from a distance: green mountains, white blazes, scenic overlooks, cheerful hikers, and inspiring stories about walking from Georgia to Maine. Then you get closer and discover bear warnings, ghost towns, Civil War battlefields, wild ponies, strange trail names, haunted inns, mysterious mountain folklore, boot-destroying rocks, suspicious privies, and hikers who voluntarily eat a half gallon of ice cream to celebrate being halfway done. Weird Appalachian Trail Road Trip Stories is a funny, ...

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 ...

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...

Step into the weirdest corners of Salem and Boston, where witch trials, haunted hotels, Revolutionary trouble, ancient graveyards, molasses disasters, literary gloom, and cobblestone chaos all somehow became vacation plans. This is not a normal travel guide. Weird Salem & Boston Stories takes readers on a funny, strange, and story-rich road trip through two of Massachusetts’ most fascinating historic cities. In Salem, you’ll wander past witch shops, memorials, old burying grounds, the Witch House, Proctor’s Ledge, the House of the Seven Gables, Derby Wharf, and the deeper witch-trial ...

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, ...

The Grand Canyon is one of America’s most famous natural wonders… but it is also much weirder than most travel guides admit. Weird Grand Canyon Stories is a funny, strange, and fascinating road trip guide to the haunted hotels, bizarre history, lost mine legends, tourist disasters, Route 66 stops, desert mysteries, and oddball attractions surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. This is not a dry park guide full of polite scenery descriptions. This book goes behind the postcard view to explore the strange stories that make the Grand Canyon region unforgettable. You’ll visit the ...

Here’s a clean KDP-ready description with no emojis or hot links: Las Vegas was never meant to be normal. Built in the Mojave Desert out of neon, luck, mob legends, fake pyramids, atomic history, Elvis weddings, haunted hotels, buffet dreams, and extremely questionable late-night decisions, Las Vegas may be America’s strangest vacation machine. It is a city where tourists can walk from fake Venice to fake Paris to fake Egypt without leaving Clark County, then end the night under a giant glowing sphere wondering how reality got this expensive. Weird Las Vegas Stories is a funny, story-...

Grab your pan. Pack your patience. And for heaven’s sake, do not trust every shiny rocks. Gold panning is one of the few hobbies where a grown adult can stand knee-deep in a freezing river, swirl mud in a plastic dish, stare at a speck the size of a flea’s kneecap, and whisper, “This could be it.” Welcome to the ultimate, dirt-under-your-fingernails road trip across America's historic gold country. This isn't your standard, dry history textbook written by someone in sensible shoes. Weird Gold Panning Road Trips is a witty, delightfully unhinged travel guide that takes you past the ...

Step into New Orleans, where the sidewalks sweat, the balconies look haunted, the cemeteries rise above the ground, and the ghosts seem to have better nightlife than most visitors. Weird New Orleans Stories is a funny, strange, story-rich road trip through one of America’s most unforgettable cities. This is not a normal travel guide. It is a weird travel adventure through haunted streets, voodoo legends, vampire lore, Mardi Gras madness, jazz history, cemetery cities, swamp stories, pirate rumors, old hotels, strange museums, and restaurants where the walls seem to know more than the ...