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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Testicle Festival
Chapter 2 - An Underpass in Connaught Circle, New Delhi, at the Moment When Someone Puts a Turd on Your Shoe
Chapter 3 - Euro Disney
Chapter 4 - Ibiza on a Family Vacation
Chapter 5 - The Beijing Museum of Tap Water
Chapter 6 - A Bathtub Filled with Beer
Chapter 7 - An Overnight Train in China on the First Day of Your First Period
Chapter 8 - Grandpa and Grandma, Koh Samui, Thailand
Chapter 9 - The Winchester Mystery House
GUEST ENTRY: The Worst Places in the Encyclopedia—A. J. Jacobs
Chapter 10 - Hell
Chapter 11 - A Buzkashi Match
Chapter 12 - Your Boss’s Bedroom
Chapter 13 - An Overnight Stay at a Korean Temple
Chapter 14 - Pamplona, from the Perspective of a Bull
Chapter 15 - The Gloucester Cheese Rolling Competition
GUEST ENTRY: The Worst Meal in Barcelona—Michael and Isaac Pollan
Chapter 16 - Wall Drug
Chapter 17 - Bart
Chapter 18 - A Stop on Carry Nation’s Hatchetation Tour
Chapter 19 - The Third Infiltration Tunnel at the DMZ
Chapter 20 - Rush Hour on a Samoan Bus
GUEST ENTRY: The Tupperware Museum—Mary Roach
Chapter 21 - An Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Emergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood
Chapter 22 - (Tr)Action Park
Chapter 23 - A Giant Room Filled with Human Crap
Chapter 24 - Kingman Reef
Chapter 25 - Naked Sushi
Chapter 26 - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Chapter 27 - Times Square on New Year’s Eve
Chapter 28 - The Double Black Diamond Run at Powderhouse Hill
Chapter 29 - The Double Black Diamond Run at Corbet’s Couloir
Chapter 30 - The Beast
Chapter 31 - The Grover Cleveland Service Area
Chapter 32 - The Room Where Spam Subject Lines Are Created
Chapter 33 - Anywhere Written About by Nick Kristof
GUEST ENTRY: Experiences That Nick Kristof Does Not Think Are Worth Having Before You Die—Nick Kristof
Chapter 34 - The Tokyo Summerland Wave Pool, August 14, 2007, 3
Chapter 35 - Mid-January in Whittier, Alaska
Chapter 36 - Onondaga Lake
Chapter 37 - Mount Rushmore
Chapter 38 - Amateur Night at a Shooting Range
Chapter 39 - Ciudad Juárez
Chapter 40 - The World’s Skinniest Buildings
Chapter 41 - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
GUEST ENTRY: The Customs Office at the Buenos Aires Airport—Rebecca Solnit
Chapter 42 - Any Hotel That Used to Be a Prison
Chapter 43 - The Top of Mount Washington in a Snowstorm
Chapter 44 - The Bottom of the Kola Superdeep Borehole
Chapter 45 - The Inside of a dB Drag Racer During Competition
Chapter 46 - Shangri-La
Chapter 47 - Body Farms
Chapter 48 - An AA Meeting When You’re Drunk
Chapter 49 - Jupiter’s Worst Moon
GUEST ENTRY: Splitting the Czech—J. Maarten Troost
Chapter 50 - Picher, Oklahoma
Chapter 51 - Tierra Santa Theme Park
Chapter 52 - A Vomitorium
Chapter 53 - Medinat al-Fayoum, Egypt, Accompanied by Your Own Security Detail
Chapter 54 - The Steam Room at the Russian & Turkish Baths
Chapter 55 - The Blarney Stone
GUEST ENTRY: Mexico City on the First Day of the Swine Flu Outbreak—Michael Baldwin
Chapter 56 - The Wiener’s Circle
Chapter 57 - The Top of Mount Everest
Chapter 58 - Garbage City
Chapter 59 - Stonehenge
Chapter 60 - The Khewra Salt Mines Mosque
Chapter 61 - Anywhere on a Yamaha Rhino
Chapter 62 - Chacabuco, Chile
Chapter 63 - The New South China Mall
GUEST ENTRY: Sumqayit, Azerbaijan—Lisa Margonelli
Chapter 64 - An Island off Germany’s East Coast, January 16, 1362
Chapter 65 - Fucking, Austria
Chapter 66 - The White Shark Café While Dressed as an Elephant Seal
Chapter 67 - The Sidewalk Outside the Roman Coliseum During the Crazy Gladiator’s Shift
Chapter 68 - Any Place Whose Primary Claim to Fame Is a Large Fiberglass Thing
Chapter 69 - The Path of an Advancing Column of Driver Ants
Chapter 70 - The Road of Death
GUEST ENTRY: Adventure of the Beagle, the Musical—Eric Simons
Chapter 71 - Cusco, If You Are Albino
Chapter 72 - Manneken Pis
Chapter 73 - An Old Firm Derby While Wearing the Wrong Color T-Shirt
Chapter 74 - The Annual Poison Oak Show
Chapter 75 - The Inside of a Chinese Coal Mine
Chapter 76 - The Seattle Gum Wall
Chapter 77 - Varrigan City
Chapter 78 - The Inner Workings of a Rendering Plant
Chapter 79 - An Airplane After It Has Been Stranded on the Runway for Eight Hours
Chapter 80 - The Amsterdam Sexmuseum
Chapter 81 - The Next Eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano
Chapter 82 - The Shores of Burundi’s Lake Tanganyika When Gustave Is Hungry
Chapter 83 - Ancient Rome on or Around the Night of July 18, 64
Chapter 84 - Nevada
GUEST ENTRY: Fan Hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention—Brendan Buhler
Chapter 85 - The World Bog Snorkelling Championships
Chapter 86 - Your College Campus Four Months After You Graduate
Chapter 87 - A North Korean Gulag
Chapter 88 - Disaster City
Chapter 89 - The Inside of a Spotted Hyena’s Birth Canal
Chapter 90 - Gropers’ Night on the Tokyo Subway
Chapter 91 - The Yucatán Peninsula When a Giant Asteroid Hit the Earth
Chapter 92 - Monday Morning at the DMV
Chapter 93 - Black Rock City
GUEST ENTRY: Burning Man—Jennifer Kahn
Chapter 94 - The Bottom of a Pig Lagoon
Chapter 95 - Sohra, India, 10
Chapter 96 - The Thing
Chapter 97 - Four Corners
Chapter 98 - Russia’s Prison OE-256/5
Chapter 99 - A Bikram Yoga Studio
Chapter 100 - The Traveling Mummies of Guanajuato
Chapter 101 - The Top of the Stari Grad Bell Tower
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright
About the Publisher
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