<B>Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times</B><BR/><BR/> The globe is littered with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past.<BR/><BR/> A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never-launched space shuttles slowly crumble, left to rot in the middle of the desert. Explore these and many more of the world's lost wonders in this atlas like no other.<BR/><BR/> With remarkable stories, bespoke maps and stunning photography of fifty forsaken sites,<I> Atlas of Abandoned Places </I>travels the world beneath the surface; the sites with stories to tell, the ones you won't find in any guidebook.<BR/><BR/> Award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith is your guide on a long-lost path, shining a light on the places that the world