New book snapshot of wonders from Atlas Obscura website

An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Independence, Missouri, for artwork made from hair.

These are the types of attractions featured on the Atlas Obscura website, a fan favorite among curiosity-seeking travelers. Now the site is bringing its geeky and magical world of wonders to the printed page.

The new Atlas Obscura book offers a sampling of 700 of the website's 10,000 curious attractions, from a pile of rocks in Butte, Montana, that makes bell-tone rings when struck with a hammer, to the skulls and body parts on display at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum.