18 of the world’s most wondrous public transportation options

Greek mosques, a lost botanist, and Paris's rooftop beekeeper. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. May 27, 2019 Wondrous Public Transit One of the greatest ways to experience a new place is also one of the simplest: take public transportation. From the Elevador de Santa Justa in Lisbon to the Roosevelt Island Tramway in NYC, Atlas Obscura readers told us about their favorite transit options around the world. Read More → Greek Mosques Athens is one of the few world capitals without an official mosque, so Muslims have transformed underground garages and empty basements into DIY ones. But now, with the first state-owned mosque on its way, they might disappear. Read more → Lost Botanist Collecting rare native plants, Catharine McGill Crooks captured a valuable record of southwestern Ontario’s flora before industrialization, large-scale agriculture, and urban sprawl erased much of the region’s wild spaces forever. Yet despite her dedication and skill, these treasures have all but vanished. Read more → Video Rooftop Beekeeper Meet Audric de Campeau, an urban beekeeper who keeps hives on the rooftops of some of Paris’s most famous landmarks: the Musee d’Orsay, the Ecole Militaire, Cordon Bleu, and other iconic sites. Watch now → Chicago, Illinois Calumet Fisheries Calumet Fisheries is one of two smokehouses still allowed to burn wood and smoke fish in Chicago. The shack, plopped between Lake Michigan and the Chicago Skyway, has become an icon of the city’s South Side. Read more → BERLIN, GERMANY Flak Tower These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter. Read more → From our friends at Curiosity Taj Mahal Designer Considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal is one of the newer additions to the list, having been commissioned in 1632. But no one actually knows who designed it. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222