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Let Secret Glasgow guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Glasgow 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.

An indispensable travel guide for those who think to know Copenhagen and for those who just wanted to explore the city from one second perspective.

A "love hotel" where you can say a prayer, a reconstituted section of the Senne river at Saint-Gery, an extraordinary private museum devoted to plastic, a farm with sheep, goats, and turkeys at place de l Yser, Masonic secrets in the Parc de Bruxelles, a hotel overlooking the Grand-Place, a surrealistic trip in a lift, a homage to the military pigeon, potholing at Koekelberg basilica, ..."

An absolute must-have travel guide to enjoy the amazing, hidden New York City bar and restaurant scene.

Secret Bangkok is more than just an indispensable travel guide to the hidden face of the city: it is written also to offer fascinating background information for those who love to connect with the soul of a place.

The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Mexico City is filled with hidden treasures revealed only to the residents and visitors who leave the beaten path.An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets.

Descend into a Cold War bunker, piece together guerrilla mosaics, unearth the most glorious of grottoes, genuflect before the wooden robot overlord, sniff out dogs more dazzling than Greyfriars Bobby, peruse a 17th-century list of ladies of pleasure, get water-boarded in a prototype Jacuzzi, travel to the Wild West of Morningside, discover hidden gardens and clandestine art that not even the neighbours know about.Far from the tourist traps and the crowded landmarks, you may have thought Edinburgh had no more to reveal, but the city still keeps many treasures hidden away in the most unexpected of places.An indispensable street and armchair guide for those who thought they knew Edinburgh well or who would like to explore the curiosities of this most secretive of cities.

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew New York City well, or who would like to discover the hidden face of the city.

A moondial in the Alpilles, a village in the Haut-Var to which Louis XIV owes his birth, an antipope who disappeared in the Luberon, a Freemason sundial, a rather unusual wedding door, traces of the Resistance in Manosque, a trench from the First World War, contemporary art in a 17th-century church...There's much more to Provence than the clichés of lavender fields and picturesque villages where people play pétanque and drink pastis.

Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall ofSeville Town Hall and how can you track down the railwayfrom the Ibero-American Expo of 1929? Where might youfind the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medievalJewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops,forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats,Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestigesof the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example ofthe Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese andJapanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of amedieval synagogue?Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville stillhas many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitorswho head off the beaten track. An essential guide forthose who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking todiscover another side of the city.