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101 places not to see before you die
Price, Catherine
Adult Nonfiction 910 P 2010
Price, Catherine
Adult Nonfiction 910 P 2010
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction | p. xiii |
| 1 - The Testicle Festival | p. 1 |
| 2 - An Underpass in Connaught Circle, New Delhi, at the Moment When Someone Puts a Turd on Your Shoe | p. 3 |
| 3 - Euro Disney | p. 5 |
| 4 - Ibiza on a Family Vacation | p. 8 |
| 5 - The Beijing Museum of Tap Water | p. 10 |
| 6 - A Bathtub Filled with Beer | p. 12 |
| 7 - An Overnight Train in China on the First Day of Your First Period | p. 14 |
| 8 - Grandpa and Grandma, Koh Samui, Thailand | p. 18 |
| 9 - The Winchester Mystery House | p. 20 |
| Guest Entry: The Worst Places in the Encyclopedia | p. 23 |
| 10 - Hell | p. 25 |
| 11 - A Buzkashi Match | p. 27 |
| 12 - Your Boss's Bedroom | p. 29 |
| 13 - An Overnight Stay at a Korean Temple | p. 30 |
| 14 - Pamplona, from the Perspective of a Bull | p. 34 |
| 15 - The Gloucester Cheese Rolling Competition | p. 37 |
| Guest Entry: The Worst Meal in Barcelona | p. 39 |
| 16 - Wall Drug | p. 42 |
| 17 - Bart | p. 45 |
| 18 - A Stop on Carry Nation's Hatchetation Tour | p. 47 |
| 19 - The Third Infiltration Tunnel at the DMZ | p. 49 |
| 20 - Rush Hour on a Samoan Bus | p. 52 |
| Guest Entry: The Tupperware Museum | p. 54 |
| 21 - An Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Emergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood | p. 55 |
| 22 - (Tr)Action Park | p. 58 |
| 23 - A Giant Room Filled with Human Crap | p. 60 |
| 24 - Kingman Reef | p. 62 |
| 25 - Naked Sushi | p. 65 |
| 26 - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | p. 67 |
| 27 - Times Square on New Year's Eve | p. 69 |
| 28 - The Double Black Diamond Run at Powderhouse Hill | p. 72 |
| 29 - The Double Black Diamond Run at Corbet's Couloir | p. 74 |
| 30 - The Beast | p. 76 |
| 31 - The Grover Cleveland Service Area | p. 78 |
| 32 - The Room Where Spam Subject Lines Are Created | p. 80 |
| 33 - Anywhere Written About | p. 82 |
| Guest Entry: Experiences That Nick Kristof Does Not Think Are Worth Having Before You Die | p. 84 |
| 34 - The Tokyo Summerland Wave Pool, August 14, 2007, 3 P.M. | p. 85 |
| 35 - Mid-January in Whittier, Alaska | p. 87 |
| 36 - Onondaga Lake | p. 90 |
| 37 - Mount Rushmore | p. 92 |
| 38 - Amateur Night at a Shooting Range | p. 94 |
| 39 - Ciudad Juárez | p. 96 |
| 40 - The World's Skinniest Buildings | p. 98 |
| 41 - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | p. 100 |
| Guest Entry: The Customs Office at the Buenos Aires Airport | p. 102 |
| 42 - Any Hotel That Used to Be a Prison | p. 105 |
| 43 - The Top of Mount Washington in a Snowstorm | p. 107 |
| 44 - The Bottom of the Kola Superdeep Borehole | p. 109 |
| 45 - The Inside of a dB Drag Racer During Competition | p. 111 |
| 46 - Shangri-La | p. 113 |
| 47 - Body Farms | p. 115 |
| 48 - An AA Meeting When You're Drunk | p. 117 |
| 49 - Jupiter's Worst Moon | p. 118 |
| Guest Entry: Splitting the Czech | p. 120 |
| 50 - Picher, Oklahoma | p. 121 |
| 51 - Tierra Santa Theme Park | p. 123 |
| 52 - A Vomitorium | p. 126 |
| 53 - Medinat al-Fayoum, Egypt, Accompanied by Your Own Security Detail | p. 128 |
| 54 - The Steam Room at the Russian & Turkish Baths | p. 130 |
| 55 - The Blarney Stone | p. 132 |
| Guest Entry: Mexico City on the First Day of the Swine Flu Outbreak | p. 134 |
| 56 - The Wiener's Circle | p. 137 |
| 57 - The Top of Mount Everest | p. 139 |
| 58 - Garbage City | p. 140 |
| 59 - Stonehenge | p. 142 |
| 60 - The Khewra Salt Mines Mosque | p. 144 |
| 61 - Anywhere on a Yamaha Rhino | p. 146 |
| 62 - Chacabuco, Chile | p. 148 |
| 63 - The New South China Mall | p. 150 |
| Guest Entry: Sumqayit, Azerbaijan | p. 152 |
| 64 - An Island off Germany's East Coast, January 16, 1362 | p. 153 |
| 65 - Fucking, Austria | p. 155 |
| 66 - The White Shark Café While Dressed as an Elephant Seal | p. 157 |
| 67 - The Sidewalk Outside the Roman Coliseum During the Crazy Gladiator's Shift | p. 159 |
| 68 - Any Place Whose Primary Claim to Fame Is a Large Fiberglass Thing | p. 161 |
| 69 - The Path of an Advancing Column of Driver Ants | p. 163 |
| 70 - The Road of Death | p. 165 |
| Guest Entry: Adventure of the Beagle, the Musical | p. 168 |
| 71 - Cusco, If You Are Albino | p. 171 |
| 72 - Manneken Pis | p. 172 |
| 73 - An Old Firm Derby While Wearing the Wrong Color T-Shirt | p. 174 |
| 74 - The Annual Poison Oak Show | p. 176 |
| 75 - The Inside of a Chinese Coal Mine | p. 178 |
| 76 - The Seattle Gum Wall | p. 180 |
| 77 - Varrigan City | p. 182 |
| 78 - The Inner Workings of a Rendering Plant | p. 184 |
| 79 - An Airplane After It Has Been Stranded on the Runway for Eight Hours | p. 186 |
| 80 - The Amsterdam Sexmuseum | p. 188 |
| 81 - The Next Eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano | p. 190 |
| 82 - The Shores of Burundi's Lake Tanganyika When Gustave Is Hungry | p. 192 |
| 83 - Ancient Rome on or Around the Night of July 18, 64 A.D. | p. 194 |
| 84 - Nevada | p. 196 |
| Guest Entry: Fan Hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention | p. 200 |
| 85 - The World Bog Snorkelling Championships | p. 202 |
| 86 - Your College Campus Four Months After You Graduate | p. 204 |
| 87 - A North Korean Gulag | p. 205 |
| 88 - Disaster City | p. 207 |
| 89 - The Inside of a Spotted Hyena's Birth Canal | p. 209 |
| 90 - Gropers' Night on the Tokyo Subway | p. 211 |
| 91 - The Yucatán Peninsula When a Giant Asteroid Hit the Earth | p. 213 |
| 92 - Monday Morning at the DMV | p. 215 |
| 93 - Black Rock City | p. 217 |
| Guest Entry: Burning Man | p. 220 |
| 94 - The Bottom of a Pig Lagoon | p. 221 |
| 95 - Sohra, India, 10 A.M., During Rainy Season | p. 223 |
| 96 - The Thing | p. 224 |
| 97 - Four Corners | p. 226 |
| 98 - Russia's Prison OE-256/5 | p. 228 |
| 99 - A Bikram Yoga Studio | p. 230 |
| 100 - The Traveling Mummies of Guanajuato | p. 232 |
| 101 - The Top of the Stari Grad Bell Tower | p. 234 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 237 |
| Photo Credits | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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