Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, using his trademark humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He has served as editor and editor-at-large of Londonist.com, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. He is tweeting at @mattfromlondon.Rhys B. Davies hails from South Wales. As a child of the nineties, he was reared on a mix of Saturday-morning cartoons, blockbuster films and all manner of literature, coalescing into a deep love of fiction and the worlds that imagination can build.

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‘Oh what fun! … allows access to a creative world and is overflowing with information and beautifully drawn maps.’

Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, using his trademark humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He has served as editor and editor-at-large of Londonist.com, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. He is tweeting at @mattfromlondon.Rhys B. Davies hails from South Wales. As a child of the nineties, he was reared on a mix of Saturday-morning cartoons, blockbuster films and all manner of literature, coalescing into a deep love of fiction and the worlds that imagination can build.

• Introduction 6New York 10Los Angeles 22San Francisco 34Washington DC 40Chicago 46New Orleans 52Miami 58Rio de Janeiro 64London 68Paris 80Venice 86Berlin 92Sydney 98Tokyo 104Location index 114Source index 140About the authors 168

‘Oh what fun! … allows access to a creative world and is overflowing with information and beautifully drawn maps.’

Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, using his trademark humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He has served as editor and editor-at-large of Londonist.com, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. He is tweeting at @mattfromlondon.Rhys B. Davies hails from South Wales. As a child of the nineties, he was reared on a mix of Saturday-morning cartoons, blockbuster films and all manner of literature, coalescing into a deep love of fiction and the worlds that imagination can build.

• Introduction 6New York 10Los Angeles 22San Francisco 34Washington DC 40Chicago 46New Orleans 52Miami 58Rio de Janeiro 64London 68Paris 80Venice 86Berlin 92Sydney 98Tokyo 104Location index 114Source index 140About the authors 168

‘Oh what fun! … allows access to a creative world and is overflowing with information and beautifully drawn maps.’