Stefan Bachmann and April Genevieve Tucholke
Similar to the Atlas Obscura books, The Secret Life of Hidden Places is an overview of mysterious places around the world. While some listed have been lost to time, or destroyed, there are a surprising number you can still visit. From speakeasys to grottoes, …
Randall Sullivan
Who doesn’t love pirate stories? Adventure, freedom, exciting battles, chests of gold… So it’s no surprise the mystery of Oak Island, located off the shores of Nova Scotia, have fascinated us for centuries.
In the late 1790s, a group of teens exploring the heavily wooded island found a …
Robert Kurson
The idea of leaving your day job and mundane life and heading out to sea to find pirate treasure can sound like a pipe dream. But there really are people whose business is to search for lost treasure. …
And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston, and his writing partner Lincoln Child, are best known for the best-selling Special Agent Pendergast novels. These include two of my all-time favorites – Still Life With Crows and The Cabinet of Curiosities. Preston has written …
Alexander Langlands
For those of us who like working with our hands, there is nothing as satisfying as making a useful and beautiful object we can use for years. Cræft, being skilled at creating unique, hand-made items sourced from nature locally, has nearly disappeared. Once, being a craftsperson who could …
Douglas Preston
Preston, part of the writing duo of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, have brought us so many exciting titles: Utopia, Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead and all the fabulous Special Agent Pendergast stories (including the hair-raising Still Life with Crows). Now Preston brings us his own, real …
Molly Oldfield
In many ways, this is an excellent and intriguing book. Oldfield managed to gain access to sixty museums and was allowed to view objects never seen by the public. Each entry covers one of these objects. They range from the sad – Anne Frank’s friendship book, and sketches …
David Stephenson
Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture catalogs dozens of vaulted ceilings. Each one, shot from a prone position below, is a masterpiece. The ability of humans with nothing but crude tools and sweat-labor to make some magnificent structures is mind-boggling. We have wildly advanced tools, …
Alex Marshall
Marshall gives a short overview on a number of famous cities and their secret underground. From waterworks, subway tunnels, aqueducts, crypts and even whole secret cities and train systems under Moscow, most major metropolitan areas have thousands of feet of under-structures that very few people are aware of. …
Harry Skrdla
Harry Skrdla is a prat. His writing is pompous, overblown and redundant. I can almost guarantee he has a closet full of notebooks where he wrote wretched Goth poetry in while in high school.
The pictures, on the other hand, are beautiful. Encompassing a wide array of ruins …
Archeology Magazine
A truly fantastic magazine. Articles range from current digs in Iran recently opened for the first time in 30 years, to an urban archeological dig being done through the floor of a room in a fully functioning motel. No one country or time period receives any special emphasis. …
