Divided into chapters on People, Earth, Nature, Space and Miscellaneous Mysteries, this compendium breaks down even the most complex topics and theories so everyone can puzzle over unanswered questions.

"This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's 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...

Presents a collection of facts about geography, people, places, or animals, including tornados, sinkholes, and aa mice eating plants.

Exciting and entertaining, this visual exploration of the edges of human knowledge and the vast world of science waiting to be uncovered presents 100 eye-opening facts.