Go to Hell A traveler's guide to Earth's most otherworldly destinations
Book - 2024
"This book features curated destinations across three hellish themes"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Travel guidebooks
Guidebooks - Published
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Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 286 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781426223532
- Welcome to Hell
- A Very Brief History of Hell
- Part 1. Portals to the Underworld
- The Acheron, Greece
- Cape Matapan, Greece
- Pluto's Gate, Turkey
- Cave of the Sibyl, Italy
- Lake Avernus, Italy
- Lacus Curtius, Italy
- Oweynagat Cave, Ireland
- Hill of Ward and Hill of Tara, Ireland
- St. Patrick's Purgatory, Ireland
- Valley of Hinnom, Israel
- Houska Castle, Czechia
- Hekla Volcano, Iceland
- Well of Hell, Yemen
- Mount Osore, Japan
- Cape Reinga, New Zealand
- Maya Cenotes, Mexico
- Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Seven Gates of Guinee, Louisiana, U.S.A.
- Seven Gates of Hell, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Part 2. Hells On Earth
- Gates of Hell, Turkmenistan
- Hell's Gate, California, U.S.A.
- Hell, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Hell, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- The World's Rare Lakes of Fire
- Phlegraean Fields, Italy
- Naples, Italy
- Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italy
- Deadvlei (Dead Valley), Namibia
- Dead Sea, Jordan and Israel
- The Hells of Beppu, Japan
- Blood Falls, Antarctica
- Haw Par Villa, Singapore
- Rotorua, New Zealand
- Wai-o-Tapu Scenic Reserve, New Zealand
- Waimangu Volcanic Valley, New Zealand
- Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, U.S.A.
- Danakil Depression and Erta Ale, Ethiopia
- Part 3. Otherworldly Destinations
- Cave of the Crystals, Mexico
- Gomantong Caves, Malaysia
- Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand
- Tsingy de Bemaraha, Madagascar
- Deception Island, Antarctica
- Craters of the Moon, Idaho, U.S.A.
- Lake Natron, Tanzania
- Skull Rock, Victoria, Australia
- Hodge Close Quarry, England, U.K.
- Boiling River, Peru
- Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Kawah Ijen Volcano, Indonesia
- Fengdu Ghost City, China
- Kasanka National Park, Zambia
- Bracken Cave, Texas, U.S.A.
- Cape York, Queensland, Australia
- Destinations by Location
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Maps and Illustrations Credits
- Index