Stranger Places

Fancy a break from home sweet home? Take a trip to the world’s weirdest locations. Have you ever visited the Gates of Hell – properly named the Darvaza gas crater? It’s a vast 226-foot-wide crater that is permanently on fire. Weirdly terrifying or what! Or what about the Blue Hole in Belize, a huge ocean cavern so deep it baffles scientists? Or the island so overrun with spiders that its residents are forced to eat them? Or Train Street in Hanoi, where trains speed past just inches from people’s front doors? If that makes you feel at all curious, you need this book…

• A fascinating journey to the world’s weirdest places

• Facts, quotes, maps and unbelievable colour photos

• Heaps of bizarre locations, from the creepy to the odd

• One for curious kids who dream of exploring the world