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Let Secret Vienna guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.   Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Vienna guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Vienna guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   A magnificent private palace that can be visited by reservation, a crocodile mummy in a private library, a chocolate house, an alchemical ceiling in Schönbrunn, one of the most beautiful pharmacies in the world, an exceptional Art Nouveau church , the tomb of a fish that would have converted to Judaism, a jazz museum in public toilets, a public dump that can be visited like a museum, the oldest organ in Vienna hidden behind a painting, an empress dressed as a nun, the mystery of the symbol 05, a masculine sex discreetly sculpted on the cathedral of Vienna, a surprising private museum of billiards, an …

Let Secret Louisiana guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.   Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Louisiana travel guide book and let our local experts show you over 200 well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track.    The smallest church in the world, a tree where old shoes promise to unburden your soul, a family home built from found objects such as window shutter, trampolines, and eight waterpark slides, the grave of married dogs, the only example of congo style architecture built by African Americans, one of the finest examples of folk art in the world built by one man on the side of a bayou, ancient Native American objects whose purpose is unknown, the one-time capital of Texas, one of the most humorous 'battles " of World War II, millions of years old fossils on the side of a highway, t…

Let Secret Brooklyn guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Brooklyn guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious visitors alike.   One of the weirdest and most glorious museums this weird and glorious city has ever seen", one of only two trees that have been designated as New York City landmarks, the oldest building in New York City, the hobbit doors of Dennet Place, a park with only one tree, learn how to breathe fire, swallow swords, hammer a nail into your skull and charm a snake, the oldest subway tunnel in the world, world's smallest Torah, a secret museum built into the hallway of a Williamsburg apartment, a farm inside Domino Sugar factory site, world's first commercial rooftop vineyard ... Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Brooklyn offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are…

Let Secret Dublin guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Dublin travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's fourth edition, Secret Dublin features 140 secret and unusual locations. Discover the inner sanctum of Freemason's Hall, see Napoleon's toothbrush, marvel at a hoax plaque hidden in plain sight on O'Connell Bridge, try George IV's footprints for size, venture into a Georgian time capsule on Henrietta Street, cross the bridge beneath which William Rowan Hamilton had his 'Eureka' moment, explore a `museum' flat preserved exactly as it was almost 100 years ago, tune into the world of vintage radio in a Martello Tower, spot Dublin's subterranean river, or post your thoughts in a myst…

Let Secret Singapore guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Singapore guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city.   Featuring 160 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Singapore guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Spot a lighthouse on the top of a 25-storey apartment blockSee unique rocky area that looks like Guilin in ChinaDiscover the remains of a Shinto shrine built in the jungle by prisoners of warFind the houses from the Ming and Qing periods donated by Jackie ChanWitness the bottoms of soya-sauce bottles used to decorate the Sultan MosqueSee the 'leaning tower' of SingaporeExplore the last remaining stretch of natural beachSpot the beautiful modernist door of a former biscuit factoryUncover a hidden kampong (rural village) dwarfed by residential towersMarvel at the splendidly preserved old Changi prison g…

A 'love hotel' where one can say a prayer, a stretch of the Senne reconstituted in Saint-Gery, a farm in the centre of the city, a Freemasonic reading of the Brussels Park, the amazing physiognomic fountain of Magritte, the place where the Tsar of Russia vomited at the park of Brussels in 1717, the former rotunda of Panorama parking, a tribute to the soldier pigeon, from speleology to The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart, a panoramic swimming pool, a scandalous pavilion in the park Cinquantenaire, a huge vegetable garden in Uccle, a nineteenth-century artist's studio in Schaerbeek, a campsite in the heart of the city, a garden forgotten in the Forest ... For those who can observe, push the doors and exit beaten tracks, Brussels is full of curiosities and surprising details that will amaze its inhabitants as well as its visitors who thought they knew it well.  

Let Secret Rome guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Rome guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike.   The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's 8th edition, Secret Rome features 140+ secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Rome:Visit places closed to the publicAdmire exceptional works of art away from the tourist circuitListen to a concert in a magnificent hidden oratoryHave your dog or car blessedPuzzle over a rare catoptric meridian or a wonderful anamorphic frescoDiscover the remarkable motorized RubensEnter into the secrets of the VaticanRediscover a lost Bernini masterpieceSay a prayer before an image of the Holy Face of Jesus Organize a dinner for two in a private palace?Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Rome is still a reserve …

Let Secret Bali guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Bali guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.   Black sand that has healing power, why you should not whistle while strolling down a beach at night, Bali's mostbeautiful and least-visited rice terraces, a very special giftto take home from Bali, a workshop where Batiks arecreated with unique natural dyes, a place to petition thespirits for a baby, the flute-playing pigeons of Ubud, anenchanting village of traditionally styled bamboo roofs, ahaunting reunion of some of Bali's most outrageousdemons, one of the world's best unofficial street artexhibitions, a tree it is impossible to plant, an ancientfertility statue with "more than the usual quota of penises",a mysterious breed of cattle, a village of the deaf, aminiature version of Java's Unesco-liste…