The Liechtensteinian lady burglar and her mysterious trunk

Cream pull candy, Chinese architecture, and Martha Washington’s "Free Franks.” Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. May 08, 2019 Lady Burglar In the 18th century, Barbara Erni roamed the European countryside with an enormous trunk strapped to her back. With the help of a tiny man hidden inside, she scammed and stole from innkeepers for nearly 15 years. Read More → Food & Drink Cream Pull Candy Heavy whipping cream turns into melt-in-your-mouth, buttery, vanilla-flavored magic when crafting Kentucky’s cream pull candy. Read more → Chinese Architecture For thousands of years, Chinese builders used rice, sugar, and blood to assemble structures across the country. The edible mortar additives served both practical and philosophical purposes. Read more → ‘Free Franks’ Former First Lady Martha Washington once used the perk of “franking”–government officials’ ability to send mail without being charged for postage–to cancel a newspaper subscription. The letter was recently up for auction. Read more → SEVILLE, SPAIN Abandoned Shipyards For two decades, the Royal Shipyards of Seville have been closed to visitors. This has been a source of great frustration for many residents of the historic city, whose only chance to see inside the medieval shipyard was during season seven of Game of Thrones. Read more → STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Skepptuna Church A 12th-century stone church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone” is a surviving reminder of early Christianity in Sweden. Read more → Food & Drink Ligurian Honey This famous Italian honey is produced by the only remaining purebred population of Ligurian bees on Kangaroo Island, 10 miles off the southern coast of Australia. Read more → From our friends at Quartz Africa’s ‘Big Lion’ Two paleontologists had a stroke of luck when they stumbled upon the remains of a gigantic mammalian carnivore. The fossils of this predator, which lived in Africa 22 million years ago, were found not buried in the earth, but in a cabinet at the National Museum of Kenya. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222