Authors: 101 Places Not to See Before You Die
North Korea, 49–51, 205–206
nuclear
garbage dumps, 198
testing sites, 197
Nudes, Running of the, 36
nurdle(s), 31, 101
nyotaimori, 65–66
O
O le nu’u-o-nonoa, 25
Oklahoma, Picher, 121–122
Old Firm Derby, 174–175
Onondaga, Lake, 90–91
opium dens, 98
Orange, Texas, 114
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, 67–68
P
Pacific Ocean, 62–64, 100–101, 157–158
pack-mules, large budget for, 114
paella, worst, 39–41
Pakistan, 82, 114, 144–145
Pamplona, Spain, 34–36
pancake(s), macerated 220
Paris, Siege of, 23
peat bog(s) and sumo wrestling costumes, 202
“Pee Boy,” Little, 172–173
penis(es), 18–19, 172–173, 209–210
Pennsylvania, 98–99
period, getting your, 14–17
Peru, 171
PETA, 35–36
Petak, 228–229
phallic rocks, 18–19
pig lagoon(s), bottom of, 221–222
Pike’s Place, 180–181
Pis
Jeanneke, 173
Manneken, 172–173
Pittsburgh, 98–99
plane crashes, 84
platza treatment(s), 131
playa foot, 218
poison oak, 176–177
Poland, 144
Pollan
Isaac, 40–41
Michael, 39–40
porn convention, Las Vegas, xiv, 200–201
Powderhouse Hill, 72–73
prawns, world–weary, 40
prison(s), 105–106, 228–229
prostitutes, 79
pseudo-testes, 210
R
rabbi(s), twelve-inch, 81
rash(es), debilitating, 176–177, 231
rat pate, 23
rebar, wounds from, 207–208
Reef, Kingman, 62–64
religious theme park(s), 123–125
rendering plants, 184–185
Rendezvous Mountain, 74–75
Rhino, Yamaha, 146–147
riding chaps, leather, 49
rime ice, covering your body, 107–108
river of human excrement, 23
Roach, Mary, 54
Rocky Mountain Oysters, 1–2
Rome, 8, 159–160, 194–195
rotten eggs, stench of, 119
Running of the Nudes, 36
rush hour, Samoa, 52–53
Rushmore, Mount, 92–93
Russia, 109–110, 228–229
Russian & Turkish baths, 130–131
S
salt mine tourism, 144–145
Sam Kee Building, 98–99
Samoa, 52–53
San Jose, California, 20–22
sausage flies, 163–164
Schultz, Patricia, xiii
Scotland, 174–175
scrotums
fake 210
on toilet seats, 188
Seattle, 180–181
security detail, your own, 128–129
selling dirt, 152
Service Area, Grover Cleveland, 78–79
sewage, xiv, 60–61, 90–91, 161, 222
sex museum(s), 188–189
Shambala, 114
Shangri-La, 113–114
shark-baiting, 63, 157–158
sheep, unlawful slaughtering of, 25
sherpa(s), risking the lives of, 139
shipwreck(s), 62
shit, 3–4, 60–61, 221–222
shooting range(s), 94–95
shrunken heads, 225
Sichuan Province, 114
Simons, Eric, 168–170
Skardu Valley, 114
ski-slopes
quaint, 72–73
ridiculous, 74–75
skinniest buildings, 98–99
sloth-like thing(s), green, 168–170
Sohra, India, 223
Solnit, Rebecca, 102–104
South America, 123–125, 148–149, 168–170, 171
South China Mall, 150–151
South Dakota, 42–44, 92–93
South Korea, 30–33, 49–51
Soviet Union, 80–81, 102, 105, 109–110, 152, 205
Spain, 34–36, 39–41, 103
spam subject lines, room where created, 80–81
special area(s) for naughty children, 151
speedboat(s), stupid, 76–77
sports fans, crazy, 174–175
spotted hyena birth canal, 209–210
Stari Grad, 234–236
Stark, H. J. Lutcher, 114
STD(s), 8
steam room, Russian & Turkish baths, 130–131
stone genitalia, 18–19
Stonehenge, 142–143
“stressed” is desserts spelled backwards
, 22
Strip, Las Vegas, 196–197
stroboscopic zoetrope(s), in Nevada desert, 218
sulphuric acid, 118–119
Sumqayit, 152
sunblock, a serious need for, 171
sun, 118
Superfund site(s), 90–91, 121–122
supervolcano, 190–191
sushi, naked, 65–66
swine flu, 134–136, 140–141
Switzerland, 75
Syracuse, New York, 90–91
T
Tap Water, Beijing Museum of, 10–11
Tar Creek, 121–122
Tartarus, 25
Tecnu, 177
Templestay Korea, 30–33
Tennessee, 115–116
testicle(s), 1, 75, 81, 160
festival, 1–2
Texas, 96, 100, 114, 207–208
Thailand, 18–19
Thing, The, 224–225
Third Infiltration Tunnel, 49–51
Third Tunnel of Aggression, 50
1362, places not to be in, 153–154
Tibet, 113
tide, scum-dappled, 201
Tierra del Fuego, 102–104, 168–170
Tierra Santa theme park, 123–125
Times Square, New Year’s Eve in, 69–71
toilet(s), 14–17, 71, 189, 218
Tokyo, Japan, 65–66, 85–86, 211–212
Traction Park, 58–59
Troost, J. Maarten, 120
Tupperware Museum, 54
turd on shoe, 3
Turkey, 120
Turnpike, New Jersey, 78–79
2021, Outdoor Weddings in, 55–57
U
UNESCO World Heritage Site, 9, 144
United States, 1–2, 20–22, 25–26, 42–44, 45–46, 47–48, 54, 55–57, 58–59, 60–61, 67–68, 69–71, 72–73, 74–75, 76–77, 78–79, 87–89, 90–91, 92–93, 94–95, 98–99, 107–108, 111–112, 115–116, 121–122, 130–131, 137–138, 176–177, 180–181, 190–191, 196–199, 200–201, 207–208, 215–216, 217–219, 220, 221–222, 224–225, 226–227
urinating statue(s), 172–173
urine, lukewarm, 86
Utah, 226–227
V
Vancouver, 98–99
Varrigan City, 182–183
Vatican City, 182
Venus, 118
videogames, violent, 182–183
volunteering, interesting opportunities for, 207–208
vomitorium, the truth, 126–127
W
wakame sake, 66
Wales, 202–203
Wall Drug, 42–44
Walt Whitman Cinnabon franchise, 79
Washington state, 180–181
waterfalls, falling off of, 120,
wave pools, crowded, 85–86
White Shark Café, 157–158
Whittier, Alaska, 87–89
whores, plastic, 123
Wiener’s Circle, 137–138
Winchester Mystery House, 20–22
Winchester, Sarah, 20–22
wounds, licking open, 230–231
Wyoming, 74–75, 190–191
Y
Yamaha Rhino, 146–147
Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, 114
Yellowstone, 190–191
YMCA dance, by coersion, 76–77
yoga, Bikram, 230–231
Yucatan peninsula, xiv, 213–214
Yungas, 165–167
Z
Zabbaleen, 140–141
Zhongdian, 114
Ziploc bag, urinating in a, 15
Zoroastrianism, 25
101 PLACES NOT TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE.
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101 places not to see before you die/by Catherine Price.—1st ed.
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Not kidding.
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Steps 2 and 3 may be combined.
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It’s actually not. Measured from base to summit, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller, if mostly underwater.
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Not to be confused with Vatican City.