101 Places Not to See Before You Die电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Testicle Festival

Chapter 2 - An Underpass in Connaught Circle, New Delhi, at the Moment When Someone Puts a Turd on Your Shoe

Chapter 3 - Euro Disney

Chapter 4 - Ibiza on a Family Vacation

Chapter 5 - The Beijing Museum of Tap Water

Chapter 6 - A Bathtub Filled with Beer

Chapter 7 - An Overnight Train in China on the First Day of Your First Period

Chapter 8 - Grandpa and Grandma, Koh Samui, Thailand

Chapter 9 - The Winchester Mystery House

GUEST ENTRY: The Worst Places in the Encyclopedia—A. J. Jacobs

Chapter 10 - Hell

Chapter 11 - A Buzkashi Match

Chapter 12 - Your Boss’s Bedroom

Chapter 13 - An Overnight Stay at a Korean Temple

Chapter 14 - Pamplona, from the Perspective of a Bull

Chapter 15 - The Gloucester Cheese Rolling Competition

GUEST ENTRY: The Worst Meal in Barcelona—Michael and Isaac Pollan

Chapter 16 - Wall Drug

Chapter 17 - Bart

Chapter 18 - A Stop on Carry Nation’s Hatchetation Tour

Chapter 19 - The Third Infiltration Tunnel at the DMZ

Chapter 20 - Rush Hour on a Samoan Bus

GUEST ENTRY: The Tupperware Museum—Mary Roach

Chapter 21 - An Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Emergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood

Chapter 22 - (Tr)Action Park

Chapter 23 - A Giant Room Filled with Human Crap

Chapter 24 - Kingman Reef

Chapter 25 - Naked Sushi

Chapter 26 - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Chapter 27 - Times Square on New Year’s Eve

Chapter 28 - The Double Black Diamond Run at Powderhouse Hill

Chapter 29 - The Double Black Diamond Run at Corbet’s Couloir

Chapter 30 - The Beast

Chapter 31 - The Grover Cleveland Service Area

Chapter 32 - The Room Where Spam Subject Lines Are Created

Chapter 33 - Anywhere Written About by Nick Kristof

GUEST ENTRY: Experiences That Nick Kristof Does Not Think Are Worth Having Before You Die—Nick Kristof

Chapter 34 - The Tokyo Summerland Wave Pool, August 14, 2007, 3

Chapter 35 - Mid-January in Whittier, Alaska

Chapter 36 - Onondaga Lake

Chapter 37 - Mount Rushmore

Chapter 38 - Amateur Night at a Shooting Range

Chapter 39 - Ciudad Juárez

Chapter 40 - The World’s Skinniest Buildings

Chapter 41 - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

GUEST ENTRY: The Customs Office at the Buenos Aires Airport—Rebecca Solnit

Chapter 42 - Any Hotel That Used to Be a Prison

Chapter 43 - The Top of Mount Washington in a Snowstorm

Chapter 44 - The Bottom of the Kola Superdeep Borehole

Chapter 45 - The Inside of a dB Drag Racer During Competition

Chapter 46 - Shangri-La

Chapter 47 - Body Farms

Chapter 48 - An AA Meeting When You’re Drunk

Chapter 49 - Jupiter’s Worst Moon

GUEST ENTRY: Splitting the Czech—J. Maarten Troost

Chapter 50 - Picher, Oklahoma

Chapter 51 - Tierra Santa Theme Park

Chapter 52 - A Vomitorium

Chapter 53 - Medinat al-Fayoum, Egypt, Accompanied by Your Own Security Detail

Chapter 54 - The Steam Room at the Russian & Turkish Baths

Chapter 55 - The Blarney Stone

GUEST ENTRY: Mexico City on the First Day of the Swine Flu Outbreak—Michael Baldwin

Chapter 56 - The Wiener’s Circle

Chapter 57 - The Top of Mount Everest

Chapter 58 - Garbage City

Chapter 59 - Stonehenge

Chapter 60 - The Khewra Salt Mines Mosque

Chapter 61 - Anywhere on a Yamaha Rhino

Chapter 62 - Chacabuco, Chile

Chapter 63 - The New South China Mall

GUEST ENTRY: Sumqayit, Azerbaijan—Lisa Margonelli

Chapter 64 - An Island off Germany’s East Coast, January 16, 1362

Chapter 65 - Fucking, Austria

Chapter 66 - The White Shark Café While Dressed as an Elephant Seal

Chapter 67 - The Sidewalk Outside the Roman Coliseum During the Crazy Gladiator’s Shift

Chapter 68 - Any Place Whose Primary Claim to Fame Is a Large Fiberglass Thing

Chapter 69 - The Path of an Advancing Column of Driver Ants

Chapter 70 - The Road of Death

GUEST ENTRY: Adventure of the Beagle, the Musical—Eric Simons

Chapter 71 - Cusco, If You Are Albino

Chapter 72 - Manneken Pis

Chapter 73 - An Old Firm Derby While Wearing the Wrong Color T-Shirt

Chapter 74 - The Annual Poison Oak Show

Chapter 75 - The Inside of a Chinese Coal Mine

Chapter 76 - The Seattle Gum Wall

Chapter 77 - Varrigan City

Chapter 78 - The Inner Workings of a Rendering Plant

Chapter 79 - An Airplane After It Has Been Stranded on the Runway for Eight Hours

Chapter 80 - The Amsterdam Sexmuseum

Chapter 81 - The Next Eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano

Chapter 82 - The Shores of Burundi’s Lake Tanganyika When Gustave Is Hungry

Chapter 83 - Ancient Rome on or Around the Night of July 18, 64

Chapter 84 - Nevada

GUEST ENTRY: Fan Hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention—Brendan Buhler

Chapter 85 - The World Bog Snorkelling Championships

Chapter 86 - Your College Campus Four Months After You Graduate

Chapter 87 - A North Korean Gulag

Chapter 88 - Disaster City

Chapter 89 - The Inside of a Spotted Hyena’s Birth Canal

Chapter 90 - Gropers’ Night on the Tokyo Subway

Chapter 91 - The Yucatán Peninsula When a Giant Asteroid Hit the Earth

Chapter 92 - Monday Morning at the DMV

Chapter 93 - Black Rock City

GUEST ENTRY: Burning Man—Jennifer Kahn

Chapter 94 - The Bottom of a Pig Lagoon

Chapter 95 - Sohra, India, 10

Chapter 96 - The Thing

Chapter 97 - Four Corners

Chapter 98 - Russia’s Prison OE-256/5

Chapter 99 - A Bikram Yoga Studio

Chapter 100 - The Traveling Mummies of Guanajuato

Chapter 101 - The Top of the Stari Grad Bell Tower

Acknowledgments

Index

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