The world’s largest steam locomotive has returned for the first time in nearly 6 decades.

A Parisian fraudster, trippy ritual, and 11 underrated amusement parks. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. May 10, 2019 The Return of ‘Big Boy’ Thousands of train fans and history buffs are making a pilgrimage to Wyoming and Utah this week to see “Big Boy,” the world’s largest steam locomotive, run for the first time in nearly six decades. Read More → Parisian Fraudster In 19th-century France, Thérèse Humbert built an empire, acquired a castle, and owned a rather distasteful but expensive leech hat–all through invented schemes so torturously convoluted that no one understood enough to prove them wrong. Read more → Atlas Obscura Community It’s somewhere that I’ve been meaning to go for years. Alas, I’ll be waiting a little longer for an ideal moment. First of all, Karl Marx’s desecrated grave needs to be tidied up… —JamazingClayton Join this conversation → Local Amusement Parks From the oldest amusement park in the world to Oregon’s Enchanted Forest, Atlas Obscura readers told us about their favorite unique local theme parks all over the world. Read more → Brown Betty Teapots Britain's iconic Brown Betty teapot has existed since the mid-19th century. Its brown glaze is praised for its heat-retaining and stain-hiding abilities, and some tea-lovers theorize that its globed shape allows for a better diffusion of loose leaf tea. Now it’s getting a redesign. Read more → Trippy Ritual Deep in a cave in southwestern Bolivia, archaeologists found a 1,000-year-old leather bundle. Inside was a pouch made of three fox snouts sewn together containing plants dedicated to causing vivid visions and altered perceptions of time. Read more → FONTANELLATO, ITALY Bamboo Labyrinth The Labirinto della Masone is an Italian cultural park that’s home to the world’s largest bamboo labyrinth. A nod to star-shaped fortress cities, the park contains about 20 different species of bamboo neatly arranged across 17 acres. Read more → Food & Drink Redlove Apples The interior of this Swiss apple features a deep-pink, almost red inner flesh with a faint white rim around the core that, when quartered, resembles the shape of a heart. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222