Book excerpt: It's unbelievable Explore some of the weirdest, wildest places on Earth through the pages of this fascinating book. Get ready to visit the world's strangest and most surprising places From animal islands filled with deadly snakes to terrifying towns and decaying buildings, these natural features and man-made structures will blow your mind. Journey to a giant blue hole in Belize that's filled with toxic gases and sea-creature skeletons, a lake in Tanzania that runs red, a town so overrun with spiders its residents are forced to eat them, and a vast 226-foot-wide crater that is always on fire. You won't believe your eyes The strange places include Terrifying terrains: Deadmen Valley, Canada Spine-tingling towns: Chernobyl, Ukraine and Miyake Village, Japan (the "toxic terror") Weird Water: Devil's Kettle, US and and Blood Falls, Antarctica Beastly abodes: Snake Island, Brazil Fright sites: the Church of Bones, Czech Republic