Ice tsunamis are an impressive display of wind and power

A wine barrel rooms, hotel ruins, and a giant sloth that’s stuck. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. March 01, 2019 Ice Tsunami In the right conditions, ice can seem to leap from lakes onto the surrounding shore. Sometimes called “ice tsunamis” or an “ice shove” this phenomenon recently sent a wall of ice rushing inland in Fort Eerie, Canada. Read more → El Ponce Ruins Overlooking the city of Ponce, the "El Ponce" hotel was once the go-to place to stay on Puerto Rico’s south coast, hosting celebrities and international diplomats. Despite being closed for more than 40 years, the abandoned remains are still a sort of national icon of the island. Read More → SASBACHWALDEN, GERMANY Wine Barrel Hotel At the foothills of the Hornisgrinde Mountain in Germany's Northern Black Forest is a tiny winery where visitors can spend the night in one of eight 8,000-liter wine barrels. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Lisbon Cuisine This six-day journey through Lisbon will be a feast for your eyes and stomach. You’ll visit markets and dockyards, meet fishermen and bakers, learn to make Portuguese specialties, and eat and drink glorious delicacies, all while exploring one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Learn more → From our friends at quartz Freddy Mamani Buildings These colorful Bolivian "cholets" are powerful symbols of cultural heritage. Read more → Found: A Sinkhole Sloth A team of researchers has located the remains of a giant sloth that was stuck in a 200-foot-deep sinkhole for 27,000 years. Read more → Sponsored by Visit Ithaca Hip Hop’s Golden Age Thousands of documents from the hip hop scene in 1970s New York City are preserved in this research archive at the Cornell University Library. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222