Description
A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the worlds most fascinating architectural mysteries.
This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the worlds most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps, a Parisian apartment locked and untouched since World War II, a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Washington, DC, and a spooky initiation well in Portugal built by a secret society. How far down can you climb before losing your nerve?
Author: Stefan Bachmann, April Genevieve Tucholke
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.35w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781523516988
Language: English
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