Many people just love to go to those “off the beaten track” places that hardly anyone else goes to. Secret Marvels of the World is full of all sorts of unusual places you can visit, from eerie natural wonders to historical oddities and bizarre architecture. To give an example, if you’ve been to London once or twice or three times, you might be wondering else to visit there. This book gives you the top 10 of London’s strangest sites. If you’re like me, you probably haven’t heard of most of them. But now I’m raring to go to the Plague Pit at St Pauls, and General Eisenhower’s Air Raid Shelter. And then it would have to be off to Norway to see the Global Seed Vault – you can actually do a tour of this place, where, safely stashed in the vaults, there are the seeds of over 4000 plant species - just in case we ever have to begin again after a global disaster. And visit Angkor Wat by all means, but why not try the Creepy Crawly Market in Siem Reap, where you can savour the best cooked crickets, moth larvae, water bugs and tarantulas. Insect street food Cambodian style! This book is lots of fun, and it’s jam packed with hundreds of places to visit that can make your holiday different and allow you to experience things outside the normal tourist traps.
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