Weird Europe: A Guide to Bizarre, Macabre, and Just Plain Weird Sights

Welcome to Weird Europe...where truth is stranger than fiction.

Thrill-seekers, students of the bizarre, travelers searching for relief from the usual tourist attractions-rejoice! At last, here is a guidebook to Europe's dark side. From strange natural wonders to the handiwork of mad scientists, dreamers, and zealots, Europe harbors hundreds of fascinating-and occasionally gruesome-suprises. In these pages, you'll discover:

-Two-headed animals

-Erotic museums

-Creepy catacombs

-A cathedral made of salt

-A railroad operated by children

-The Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum

-An all-ice hotel

-Ancient pagan rituals

-Mines

-Sewer tours

-A museum of espionage

-UFO landing sites

-Pictures drawn by the dead

-A frog museum

-Pancake races

-Oddball art

-Underground cities

-Giants, freaks, and Siamese twins

-The Temple of Echoes

-And more!

Covering twenty-five countries, with complete directions, opening hours, and admission prices for nearly a thousand wild attractions, Weird Europe is an indispensable guide to a world that you never knew existed. Once you enter Weird Europe, there's no turning back.

• Author
• Kristan Lawson, Anneli Rufus

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 352

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Griffin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-19873-2

• EAN
• 9780312198732

• Genres
• travel

• Release date
• 1999