27 inspiring bridges that are worth going out of your way to cross

Invasive plants, Singapore playgrounds, and SpaceX cheese. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. June 14, 2019 27 Inspiring Bridges From a gorge-spanning railway in Central Chile to a bridge that reaches across a narrow chasm separating two sides of a historic Spanish city, Atlas Obscura readers told us about the most incredible and memorable bridges they've encountered. Read More → Invasive Plants The sight of creeping vines, crawling roots, or clinging weeds on an ancient structure can be a photographer’s dream. But, for Istanbul’s old city walls and gates, the photogenic plants are an invasive threat to their preservation. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Barcelona Join us next February as we soak in the history and spectacle of Barcelona with behind-the-scenes explorations. Taste Catalan "war menu" recipes in a beautifully preserved modernist apartment, enjoy a private concert in a masonic library turned residence, and more on this six-day trip. Learn more → Singapore Playgrounds Playgrounds featuring dragons and traditional sampan rowboats rising out of sandpits are relics of Singapore’s urban planning history. Designed by Khor Ean Ghee, the playgrounds are now capsules of the country’s national identity. Read more → Centuries of Crime Crime archives made by local bishops capture centuries of everyday transgressions in Ely, Cambridgeshire, from cheese theft to murder, and everywhere in between. Read more → Mexico City, Mexico Revolution Monument At 220 feet tall, the Monumento a la Revolución is the tallest triumphal arch in the world. And while many people admire it as they explore downtown Mexico City, not everyone realizes how much is going on inside—and below—this huge monument. Read more → Food & Drink SpaceX Cheese The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère. Read more → From our friends at History Ship Wreckage Found After much searching, researchers have finally located the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, at the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222