Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners (Unexpected Atlases)

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Atlas of the Unexpected is a journey tofar-off lands, obscure discoveriesand unimaginable locations, with45 beautiful, uniquemaps and evocative photography.

Architectural Oddities - did you know that the London Bridge built in 1831 today stands in Arizona?The author offers a great variety, from formerly closed soviet cities and other deserted military places over utopian places like Christania and villages abandoned after wars or other incidents to modern creations like the artificial island “The Palm” and underground ways which were never meant to be discovered.

I would still recommend this to readers who want to know about some of the more "improbable" or unusual places in the world, especially readers who want to simply have a list of places that they can then research on their own. As I read this book, I was googling the locations and interesting many would appear as the first possible match after only 2 or 3 letters. This engrossing book traverses the heights and depths, the beauty and terror, of our world.’ - THE OBSERVER Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and arcane. His unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points. Discover the secret Soviet city of Zheleznogorsk and the church tower of San Juan Parangaricutiro, miraculously still standing as the sole survivor of a town sunk by lava. Explore the underground realms of Beijing and Berlin, dug for refuge and espionage, and the floating worlds of remote Palmerston and the macabre Island of Dolls.Travis Elborough writes about a wide range of subjects with originality, learning and charm.Atlas of the Unexpected...is seductively beautiful: an inspiring, dream-inducing guideto almost four dozen “haphazard discoveries, chance places and unimaginable destinations”..."David Kynaston, New Statesman–‘best books of 2018’