Italian vineyards are glowing from the light of hundreds of torches

A mine castle, coffin benches, and the greatest airplane strangers. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. May 14, 2019 For Sale: Mine Castle Deep in the Nevada desert is a 22-room home that looks like a citadel of concrete, glass, and steel. Once the site of an old mine, the isolated castle is up for sale for anyone willing to live 50 miles from the nearest town. Read more → Glowing Vineyards To protect vineyards from unseasonably cold weather throughout northern Italy, winemakers have lit hundreds of torches to keep their grapes viable and—as an added, perhaps unintentional bonus—to turn the Italian wine country into a scene out of a children’s storybook. Read More → WHITBY, ENGLAND Coffin Benches The benches on the steps leading to St. Mary’s Church weren’t intended to hold the living. Pallbearers would place coffins on the planks when they needed a break while carrying the dead to the church cemetery. Read more → Atlas Obscura Community As a kid I always thought this was about the coolest thing in Nebraska. I think I still stand by that statement. —thirdfuerst Join this conversation → Airplane Strangers From chance encounters that turned into lifelong friendships to strange brushes with a celebrity, Atlas Obscura readers shared their most unforgettable encounters with strangers on airplanes. Read more → Prussian Grifter Throughout the 1880s, Bertha Heyman never stopped swindling men of their fortunes—even from behind bars. She pulled off an impressive number of capers over the course of her criminal career that eventually led to her own one-woman show. Read more → Food & Drink Roman Candy This century-old New Orleans taffy candy is still sold from a mule-drawn cart. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222