101 Places Not to See Before You Die - Catherine Price [63]
Boston, 24
Brussels, 172–173
Bryson, Bill, 191
Buenos Aires, 102–104, 123–125
Buhler, Brendan, 200–201
bullfighting, 34–36
Burning Man, 217–219, 220
burps, really loud, 111–112
Burundi, 192–193
bus rides, uncomfortable, 52–53
Buzkashi, 27–28
C
Cairo, 128–129, 140–141
caldera(s), 118, 190–191
California, 6, 20–22, 45–46, 60–61, 94–95, 100, 157, 176–177
camel, bladder of, 71
Camino del Muerte, 165–167
Canada, 98–99, 190
Cancun, 213
capitalist “screw you”(s), 50
Carry Nation, 47–48
Cayman, Jack, 182–183
Chacabuco, Chile, 148–149
chainsaws, as arms, 182–183
Cheese Rolling Competition, Gloucester, 37–38
Chicago, 66, 137–138
Chicxulub, 213
Chile, 148–149
China, 10–11, 14–17, 23, 31, 66, 84, 114, 120, 145, 150–151, 178–179
Chodovar, 12–13
Chou, Emperor, 23
cicada brood, Great Eastern, 55–57
Circus Maximus, 194–195
Cleveland, Grover, 78–79
clitoris, doubling as pseudo-penis, 209
coal mines, Chinese, 178–179
cocaine, 9, 103
college campus, four months after you graduate, 204
Colorado, 1, 226–227
Columbia, California, 176–177
composting sewage 60–61
cows, 184
Congo, Democratic Republic of, 84
Connaught Circle, 3
Consumer Electronics Show, 201
Cooper’s Hill, England, 37–38
Corbet’s Couloir, 74–75
Cork, Ireland, 132–133
corpses, rotting, 115–116
Couloir, Corbet’s, 74–75
crap, giant room filled with human, 60–61
cream cheese, 13
Croatia, 234–236
crocodile, human-eating, 192–193
Cusco, Peru, 171
Czech Republic, 12–13
D
Dante, 23
Darwin, Charles, 168–170
dB drag racing, 111–112
Death, Road of, 165–167
deepest hole, the, 109–110
Deformed Man End Place(s), 10–11
dementors, 215
Demilitarized Zone, 49–51
deodorant, 84
Department of Motor Vehicles, the, 215–216
devil babies, 225
dicks, gathering place for, 137–138
Dildo Days, Historic, 156
Dildo Museum, 156
dinosaurs, extinction of, 213
Disappointment Keeper(s), 54
Disaster City, 207–208
Disney, Euro, 5–6
DMV, 215–216
DMZ, 49–51
dog(s)
cute photograph(s) of, 227
launching into orbit, 109
dong toast, celebratory, 81
Dongguan, China, 150–151
drag racing, dB, 111–112
dropping balls, 69–71
drug war(s), 67–68, 96–97
E
eau de BART, 45–46
Egypt, 128–129, 140–141
elephant seal(s), 157–158
England, 37–38, 54, 142–143
Euro Disney, 5–6
Europe, 5–6, 8–9, 12–13, 34–35, 37–38, 39–41, 132–133, 142–143, 153–154, 155–156, 172–173, 174–175, 188–189, 194–195, 202–203
Evil, Axis of, 82
existential crisis, feeling of, 197
F
fan hours, Las Vegas porn convention, xiv, 200–201
fart, acronyms that rhyme with, 45
feces, rotting, 60–61
fiberglass thing(s), large, 161–162
Filkins, Dexter, 28
firearm neophytes, 94–95
foam parties, 9
forensic anthropology, 115–116
Four Corners, 226–227
France, 5–6
freezer burn, 41
Fremont, California, 22
Frenchmen, irascible, 192–193
Fucking, Austria, 155–156
G
Ganghwa Island, South Korea, 30
Garbage City, 140–141
Garbage Patch, Great Pacific, 100–101
garlic keeper(s), 54
germaphobes’ nightmare(s), 132–133, 180–181, 230–231
gladiator(s), crazy, 159–160
glandular fever, 133
Gloucester Cheese, 37–38
goat(s), dead, headless, 27–28
Gore, Al, 214
Grandma Rock, 18–19
Grandpa Rock, 18–19
Great Man-Drowning, 153–154
Great Molasses Flood, 24
gropers’ night, 211–212
Grote Mandrenke, 153–154
Guanajuato, Traveling Mummies of, 232–233
gulag(s), 205–206
Gum Wall, 180–181
gumsicle(s), 181
Gustave, 192–193
H
hamburgler orgasm(s), 81
Harry Potter, 215
Hatchetation, 47–48
Hawaii, 139
Hell
at Buenos Aires Airport customs office, 102
dermatologic version of, 176
Eighth Circle of, 23
Michigan, 25–26
in space, 118
in the form of the department of motor vehicles, 215
Hilton, James, 113
Himalayas, 113
historical food containers, museum(s) of, 54
human flesh, 23, 115–116
hyena(s), 209–210
hygiene, questionable, 65–66
hygienic radish(es), 33
I
Ibiza, 8–9
idiotic activities, 37–38, 58–59, 74–75, 76–77, 111–112, 146–147, 176–177, 202–203
Il, Kim Jong, 50, 205–206
Illinois, 66, 137–138
imekura, 212
Inca Trail, 171
India, 3, 223
Inland Empire, California,