Secret Marvels of the World by Lonely Planet reads like a travelogue. Going over a projection map of the globe it splits the places it covers roughly into Longitude. Given a standard Mercator Projection of the Globe, it starts with a far left position that covers Alaska, Hawaii and a few of the Pacific Islands.

The book is split into articles and gives the coordinates of the place it is talking about along with a pictorial example of the sights you get to see. At the end of the article is a description of how to get to that location. Local airports come up a lot in some of the areas. The distances seem to mostly be in kilometers. I don’t know if that messes with people, but personally, I am used to miles. Sometimes being an American is stupid.

Anyway, this book covers the things that are off the beaten path of what people visit, or so it says. One of the articles covers the Winchester Mystery House, and I know that I have heard of that. Maybe it just covers it because it is a peculiar place. Along the way are other places both man-made and natural, teeming with interesting qualities. Like the house built of glass embalming fluid bottles up in British Columbia.

While I understand that a lot of the book is limited by space, some of the entries are a bit too weird for me. Also, I don’t think I would want to go to a lot of these places. Although some of them are nice, not too many of them were in the United States. If they were, they weren’t near the Midwestern United States.

In any case, the book is interesting enough, but I don’t really know about going to these places. ( )