curiosities and wonders

A juvenile-level reference work containing statistics about the world's largest, smallest, fastest, highest, and so forth.

Includes strange stories of UFOs, amazing animals, spontaneous human combustion, spooklights, travel to the past, vanishing islands, giant beasts, and monsters.

Investigates ten important sites around the shores of the Mediterranean, covering a time span from 3600 BC to AD 1853.

Examines ten important sites and the people who built them, in such places as Turkey, England, and Mexico, covering a time span from 7200 BC to AD 1570.

Collects odd and funny pet facts and stories.

An illustrated compendium of strange, interesting facts about a variety of topics.

Attempts to explain seven mysterious events in history including the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the Hindenburg, Salem witch trials, the death of the dinosaurs, sinking of the battleship "Maine," and the disappearance of the sailing ship "Mary Celeste.".

A collection of Guinness World Records that chronicles strange human accomplishments, including listings and explanations of juggling chainsaws, bathing with rattlesnakes, pulling freight trains, and other oddities.

Presents five hoaxes that have appeared since the beginning of the twentieth century including Edward Gardner's claim that he captured fairies on film in 1917 through to the crop circle craze in the 1960s.