The duo behind the massively successful podcast "Stuff You Should Know" offers an unexpected look at weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics, featuring new subjects that they've long wondered about and wanted to explore.

This book takes on the biggest subject of all: our world and everything in it! There's a whole world of information inside on almost every subject under the sun, from science to technology, from history to geography to popular culture. Each spread contains a LEGO scene to facilitate the learning journey: a vignette, mini story, or icon featuring LEGO models, characters, and sensibility.

•Do you refuse to take the top newspaper on a stack (even if perfect)?•Insist that the toilet paper hang "over"?•Wait for the phone to ring at least twice before answering?•Keep returning to the refrigerator hoping that something new to eat has materialized?Outrageous, outlandish and downright ridiculous eccentricities exhibited (and confessed to) by otherwise normal people. From hilarious bathroom behavior, funny money routines, and unconventional...

In 45 beautiful, unique maps and with evocative photography, Atlas of the Unexpected is a journey to far-off lands, obscure discoveries and unimaginable locations. From the fortuitous discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls by a stray goat, to the wonderfully bizarre beginnings that led to the aptly named Just Enough Room Island and even the royal romance that led shipwrecked lovers to discover Madeira, Travis Elborough takes you on a voyage to some...

Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art deco New York subway station, a Soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle, a flooded Thai mall teeming with aquatic life - Travis Elborough takes you on a journey into these strange, overlooked and disappearing...

Readers lift the flaps to peek into the forgotten corners of the world's most famous museums.

Bermuda Triangle, North Atlantic Ocean -- Berwyn Mountains, Wales -- Bhangarh, India -- Carew Castle, Wales -- Caucasus Mountains, Eurasia -- Death Valley, California, USA -- Devil's Gate Dam, California, USA -- Devil's Sea, Japan -- German Cemetery, Cannock Chase, England -- Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Oceania -- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada -- Han River, Vietnam -- Jefferson, Texas, USA -- Kremlin, Russia -- Laguna, Philippines, Southeast Asia...

More than half a century ago, a mysterious figure named Professor L. Otto Funn unlocked the secret to making learning fun and exciting. He recorded his observations in confidential files that he kept hidden in his office. Before Professor Funn could publish his work, he disappeared on a research trip to the Bermuda Triangle, and his files went missing. Decades later, they were discovered deep in the archives of renowned educational publisher World...

Describes the appearance of the phenomena known as crop circles and offers various explanations as to how they were created.