Atlas of Lost Cities : A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations

With easy to read entries, this book features over 40 urban destinations around the world that have earned the author’s reputation of forsaken — that will appeal to travel junkies, fans of weird history, and lovers of weird local mystery. Along with engaging maps, the author will go into the rise and fall — diving into what drove people to settle sometimes unlikely places and their downfall that led them to be curio ghost towns. The book covers better known places like Pompeii and Teotihuacán, and more contemporary wonders like Centralia, Pennsylvania — where an underground fire continues to burn after years. These locations are juxtaposed with locations that never where — ghost cities that were built to accommodate thousands that never showed up and real live Atlantises, cities that now exist underwater. With the accompanying cartography, this book is an engaging look at zany settlements — that will appeal to readers of series Atlas Obscura and the like.