AMERICA OBSCURA

America Obscura the follow up to the 1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura is a road trip into the hidden heart of America a love letter to the strange fantastic and beautiful corners of the United States America Obscura takes readers on a journey that stretches from shore to shore in search of the country s folk rituals and roadside museums its outsider artists and eccentric prophets its forgotten dreamers and improbable visionaries who help shape the landscape every day Equal parts travel companion and cultural almanac this is the definitive field guide to America s hidden marvels Start in Alaska where the whimsical 185 foot Dr Seuss House stacks story upon story into the clouds and watch the moon driven bore tide of Turnagain Arm roll in like a liquid wall for sub arctic surfers Head south to Colorado to visit the Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival and then drift across the Great Plains to tour the world s largest collection of marbles in Nebraska In New York meet a ghostly white deer herd that roams a decommissioned nuclear weapons repository and in Arizona dine at a pizza shop that also hosts concerts on a 6 000 pipe Wurlitzer organ With hundreds of breathtaking photographs maps and sample road trips America Obscura is a vividly illustrat