Weird England: Your Travel Guide to England's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

ISBN-10: 1402742290
ISBN-13: 9781402742293
Category: Travel
Pages: 271
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Author: Matt Lake

Description

Focusing on the bizarre, a collection of entertaining, illustrated travel guides features a host of oddball curiosities, ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions that can be found throughout the United States and around the globe.

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