Field Guides
Curated sets — a theme, a region, a handful of places I keep returning to. Read them free; members unlock the map of every exact location, or buy a single guide on its own.
Yugoslavia in concrete — gates, monuments, towers and holiday hotels built to outlast the federation that raised them, and now outliving it empty. Thirteen stops, six countries, one long drive.
Open guideAn empire's architecture, cut in pink volcanic stone. Four radials out of Yerevan and back — a mirror telescope on a mountain, two grounded airliners, a resort that never opened, and a capital still living inside the plan.
Open guideIceland's ring road in seven days, anticlockwise, in a camper — waterfalls, a glacier lagoon, a boiling plain and a cave full of blue water, and scattered along the same eighteen hundred kilometres an aeroplane that was driven the length of the country, a wartime wreck at the head of a fjord, a Viking village built for a film nobody ever made, and a herring boat standing on the shore that built her.
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