THE REAL WONDERS OF THE WORLD

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Uncover the awesome real world of wonders, find out fantastic facts, be stunned by the truly surprising and let you mind be boggled by the magical and the amazing. Get the lowdown on the world wonders that really matter, from the creepy catacombs of Paris and super-secure fort knox to a robot restaurant in china and the international space station!
� Incredible photos and cutaway illustrations of the most mind-bending spots on the whole planet � Scary places, spooky places, hi-tech and hidden places� fun places, thrilling places, deadly and daft places! Author: Lonely Planet
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Stupendous Structures (p. 08)
• Empire State Building: Towers Get Tall (p. 10)
• The granddaddy of skyscrapers along with record-breaking newbies
• Burj Khalifa: Welcome to the Top (p. 12)
• Peek inside the world's tallest building
• Star Statue of Liberty (p. 14)
• The famous lady and other stunning statues
• What an Eiffel! (p. 16)
• Surprising secrets of the Paris tower and other celebrity structures
• Handmade Islands (p. 18)
• Dubai's new wonderworlds and other hand-built islands
• Supreme Stadiums (p. 20)
• Designer Olympic stadiums
• Neuschwanstein: Crazy Castle (p. 22)
• A castle built for a king who was cuckoo
• Anzhaite: Big Bridge (p. 24)
• China's superhigh suspension bridge
• Tau Tona: Deep Stuff (p. 26)
• South Africa's gold megamine
• Giza: The Great Pyramid Puzzle (p. 28)
• The real wonders of Egypt's Great Pyramid
• The Good Life (p. 30)
• Nice 'n' Icy Icehotel (p. 32)
• Sweden's Icehotel and other amazing places to stay
• Caves of Cappadocia (p. 34)
• Turkey's cool cave dwellings and other awesome homes
• Buckingham Palace: Secrets of the Palace (p. 36)
• A London home fit for royalty
• Dubai Megamall (p. 38)
• Dubai's top mall and a world tour of hot shopping spots
• Deyrolle: World's Weirdest Store (p. 40)
• A Paris store like no other
• Robot Restaurant (p. 42)
• Chinese robot dining and other supercool cafés
• Tasty Science (p. 44)
• Find the world's most awesome chefs
• Chutters: The Sweet Spot (p. 46)
• A record-breaking candy store and other handy candy locations
• Thrills, Spills, and Games (p. 48)
• Fabulous Bricks (p. 50)
• Wondrous theme parks, led by LEGOLAND® in Denmark
• White Knuckle Rides (p. 52)
• Heart-stopping Kingda Ka and other exciting roller-coaster rides
• Kjerag, Norway: High in the Sky (p. 54)
• The world's craziest BASE-jumping spot and other sporting high points
• Swamp Sports (p. 56)
• Where to play the world's muddiest games
• Hooray for Hollywood (p. 58)
• Get into the movies at Universal Studios
• Wild about Potter (p. 60)
• Enter the rebuilt world of the wand-wielding young wizard
• New Zealand: One Location to Rule Them All (p. 62)
• Follow Frodo to the real-life Lord of the Rings locations
• Super Cirque du Soleil (p. 64)
• Canada's global circus success and other star shows
• Cultural Wonders (p. 66)
• Rio Carnival (p. 68)
• The world's biggest party, Brazil-style
• Fun for Food Fans (p. 70)
• The Battle of the Oranges and other freaky food festivals
• Let's Go to THAT! (p. 72)
• Weird world events. Ever heard of baby jumping? It's true!
• Harbin's Wonderland (p. 74)
• A Chinese wonder chopped from ice
• Pitt Rivers: Museum Madness (p. 76)
• A wonderfully weird museum selection
• Terrifically Big Smithsonian (p. 78)
• The biggest museum on the planet
• Sistine Chapel: Art Upside Down (p. 80)
• The stunning Sistine Chapel ceiling and its secrets
• Outdoor Art (p. 82)
• Where to find fantastic outdoor masterpieces
• Hidden Places (p. 84)
• Area 51: No Entry (p. 86)
• A secret base that could be a spaceship spot
• Burlington Bunker: Found Underground (p. 88)
• A whole town hidden below ground
• Paris Catacombs: Secrets Under the City (p. 90)
• A big bone collection beneath the streets of a capital city
• Fort Knox: Locked Away (p. 92)
• Where hidden gold is guarded by guns
• Amazing Caves (p. 94)
• Tour a cave world of fantastic underground facts
• Barrow & Co. (p. 96)
• Alaska's chilliest town and other tough places to live
• Sutton Hoo: Lost and Found (p. 98)
• Special spots where glittering treasures have been dug up
• Terracotta Army (p. 100)
• The world's biggest and strangest underground discovery
• High Tech (p. 102)
• Autostadt: Wheely Good (p. 104)
• An awesome automated motor tower and some parking marvels
• Bonneville and Beyond (p. 106)
• Speedy hot spots for record-breaking runs
• Space Bases (p. 108)
• Where to see roaring space rockets
• International Space Station: Beds in Orbit (p. 110)
• A real wonder above your head
• Eden Project: Plant Power (p. 112)
• Seed banks and bio-domes that are perfect for plants
• McMurdo: World's Iciest Workplace (p. 114)
• Antarctica's icy science city
• Atacama Stargazers (p. 116)
• The best place on the planet to see the universe
• CERN: Smashing Science (p. 118)
• Where Higgs-boson history is being made
• Linfen: Trash City (p. 120)
• The dirtiest locations around
• Fright Night (p. 122)
• Bermuda Triangle & Other Spooky Seas (p. 124)
• Mysterious oceans where things disappear
• Tower of London (p. 126)
• The home of headless ghosts who once got the chop
• Day of the Dead (p. 128)
• A day to celebrate spooks
• Palermo's Creepy Catacombs (p. 130)
• Meet Italy's best-dressed mummies
• Lizzie Borden's Haunted House (p. 132)
• Did a murder mess leave a haunted address?
• Ghosts of Chernobyl (p. 134)
• Where the streets are spookily silent
• Strange Haunted Places (p. 136)
• Surprising spooky spots
• Dangerous Places (p. 138)
• Southern Ocean Peril (p. 140)
• The roughest, toughest ocean dangers out there
• Big Bites in New Smyrna (p. 142)
• Florida's worst shark spot and other biting beast locations
• Barrier Reef Beasties (p. 144)
• Stingers and biters at the Great Barrier Reef
• Sudden Sinkholes (p. 146)
• Megaholes, quicksands, and poisonous gas, all under your feet
• It's Cold at the Poles (p. 148)
• Why a bikini would not be a good idea at the poles
• Shake Zones (p. 150)
• The world's worst earthquake centers
• Pompeii: The Buried City (p. 152)
• A deadly disaster that buried a town
• Death Valley: The Deadly Desert (p. 154)
• The hottest place on the planet
• Index (p. 156)
• Who published this excellent book and where the photos came from (p. 160)