Atlas of improbable places

I like this type of book, I'm practically the target audience. Trivia, travel, odd places with a strange history? Sign me up. And yet, there's too little of everything. A single picture and a few paragraphs of text, but most of all, no rhyme or reason to why these places were picked out of the many that there are in the world, and no common thread to connect them all. I managed to get bored towards the end.