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, …
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 …
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Guide to the World’s 500 Most Colorful Places
Taylor Fuller
If a colorful punch in the eye is a top priority when you travel, this collection of rainbow-hued locations is for you! They run the gamut of natural locations, including multi-colored lakes, rivers and mountains, to towns with colorful …
Inside the Homes of the World’s Most Creative People
Sam Lubell
This solid collection is a slow read to carefully work your way through. The content itself is not dense – one to three pictures of a home interior along with a page description. But nearly every room and its …
Van Dyke, Kristina
The art of Africa is often an area of extreme ignorance, even to those of us with art degrees. Africa is vast continent with dozens of countries and kingdoms, further divided into thousands of smaller tribal groups, each with their own languages and beliefs. And yet the …
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 …
Lawrence Wescheler
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder is a strange little book on a real-life “museum” – the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Stuffed with wonders such as the Sonnabend Model of Obliscence, laying out reality in a cone format, information on various and sundry strange animals, a scale creation of …
Patrick Mauries
After reading Preston and Child’s Cabinet of Curiosities, I couldn’t resist finding out more about cabinets of curiosities (the precursor to the modern museum). This gorgeous, weird book is a history of the cabinets and their weird contents – everything from sculpture, to shells and minerals, fake …
