No one can tell you everything you need (or secretly want) to know about a city and state before you visit it. Where is the world's largest globe? Who did the Guiness World Records list as the "greatest miser the world has ever known?" Books like Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, by Chris Gethard, answer these questions (on pages 154 & 101, respectively) and more by filling the void regular travel guides leave out.

 

With over 1.1 million copies sold in the entire Weird series, you can't go wrong with what Booklist calls, "Best travel series of the year 2006" and Newsday declares, "This is the stuff you wished you learned in school. (Or maybe you did, but you weren't allowed to talk about it in class.)" 

 

An impressive hardcover New York Coffee Table book with 271 pages of interesting and funny local legends and facts, it makes a great gift for yourself or someone you love. 

 

 

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