We predict the most obscure trends of 2019

Headlines that weren't, arrow-wielding elves, and big lonely doug. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. January 02, 2019 2019 Predictions Trendsetting is no joke. We assembled the most niche and obscure trends we hope will dominate headlines next year, including bone churches and cheese in unexpected places. Read More → Atlas Obscura Trips Photographing Romania Join us next summer for an 11-day photo tour exploring and photographing Romania’s most dramatic and grandiose structures. From palaces and former prisons to abandoned casinos and penitentiaries, there’ll be something to capture on every corner. Learn more → Arrow-Wielding Elves For centuries, Scottish farmers believed their weak, milk-less, or bloated cows were a sign that something supernatural was afoot. Read more → Headlines That Weren’t Sometimes our brainstorms yield phrases we wish we could share with you, dear reader. There is only room for one headline atop every post, so we must whisper adieu to the excess words and move on. Until now. Read more → PORT RENFREW, BRITISH COLUMBIA Big Lonely Doug Saved by a logger, a Douglas fir is one of the last and loneliest great old-growth trees in Canada. Read more → ST CLEER, ENGLAND Stone Cold Cornish legend says a set of three ancient stone circles is a reminder of those punished for playing hurling on a Sunday. Read more → Food & Drink Pond Popovers Created by settlers in Maine as a modification of British Yorkshire pudding, these light and hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222