This Lincoln Bible has been hiding for 150 years

Hidden French Quarter, unforgettable ceilings, and sorrow burning Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. June 24, 2019 Hidden French Quarter Beyond the elaborate parades of Mardi Gras, New Orleans is filled with surprising wonders. From a 19th-century absinthe house that may have been influential to the War of 1812 to a shell-shaped soundboard in an 18th-century church, discover what’s hidden in the French Quarter. Read More → Lincoln Bible Abraham Lincoln reportedly received this Bible as a gift in 1864, the year before he was assassinated. It has remained hidden until now. Read more → DOORN, NETHERLANDS Huis Doorn When Kaiser Wilhelm II fled Germany after the First World War, he settled at Doorn Manor in the Netherlands, where he lived until his death in 1941. Read more → Community Unforgettable Ceilings From the ornate ceiling of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to the wall-to-wall disco-ball mirroring of the Shah Cheragh mosque in Iran, you can miss a lot of wonder if you forget to look up. Tell us about the most incredible ceilings you’ve encountered. Share now → Bird Archaeology The creation of Peru’s Nazca Lines has stumped everyone from archaeologists and anthropologists to astronomers and even UFO enthusiasts. Now, a multidisciplinary group of researchers is taking an ornithological approach to understanding these geoglyphs. Read more → SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO Sorrow Burning Meet Zozobra, otherwise known as Old Man Gloom. Every year since 1924, Santa Fe residents have set the massive marionette aflame to dispel gloom and sadness so the Fiestas de Santa Fe can begin. Read more → VIDEO A Rock’s Many Lives Giant Rock, in Landers, California, is thought to be one of the world’s largest freestanding boulders. It’s been used as a Native American spiritual site, a pilgrimage destination for UFO enthusiasts, and more. To truly understand its magnetic appeal, you have to see it for yourself. Watch now → Wildfire Blooms Brazil boasts more than 12,000 different plant species. Of them, Bulbostylis paradoxa, a grass-like sedge, stands out. It has adapted to bloom—and bloom fast—just after a wildfire scorches past. Read more → Food & Drink Beaver Dam Pepper When Hungarian immigrants came to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, they couldn’t conceive of a new American life without a little peppery taste of home. So they brought this pepper’s seeds with them and passed them down for generations. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222