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Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations

Olivier Le Carrer - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Print book

Oliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world's most dangerous and frightful places, complete with vintage maps and period illustrations in a handsome volume.
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Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot

Joe Gisondi - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback

Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every state except Hawaii. Interest in this creature, which many believe to be as mythical as a leprechaun, is as strong today as ever, with the wildly popular show Finding Bigfoot persisting on the Animal Planet network and references to bigfoot...
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In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch

John Zada - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. The area plays host to a wide range of species, from thousand-year-old...
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific...
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

One of NPRs Great Reads of 2016. "A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories ... absorbing ... [and] intellectually intriguing." - The New York Times Book Review. From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history...
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National Geographic Guide to the World's Supernatural Places: More Than 250 Spine-Chilling Destinations Around the Globe

Sarah Bartlett - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Witches and demons, ghosts and vampires, aliens and voodoo spirits ... from spooky to chilling to downright weird, signs of the supernatural have terrified -- and fascinated -- people for centuries. Dare to discover some of the world's most puzzling enigmas in this remarkable book,...
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Bill Schutt - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and, until just recently, misunderstood in the scientific world." - Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History,...
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Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Using humor and real science in the tradition of Mary Roach, this narrative illuminates the gross, strange, morbid, and outright absurd realities of our bodies, our earth, and our universe.Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National...
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn ... With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight...
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what...
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World’s Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition

Amy Stewart - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition - now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks...
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And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara

Cody Cassidy - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagine What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only a swimsuit? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could...
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used...
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Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond

Tim Rayborn - W W Norton
Format: Print book

Beethoven's Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange...
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Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North America

Kenneth L. Feder - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Does evidence show that Native Americas residing in Utah a thousand years ago lived among dinosaurs, depicting those creatures in their rock art? Did some of those same ancient Americans also encounter visitors from other planets, painting images of space-suited aliens on canyon walls?...
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Peter Manseau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer,"...
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