For 40 years, crashing trains was one of America’s favorite pastimes

Giant wasp nests, stargazing tips, and Roman cisterns. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. July 03, 2019 Staged Train Wrecks From 1896 until the 1930s, staged train wrecks were a popular—albeit destructive—event at fairs and festivals all across the United States. Read More → Giant Wasp Nests Thanks to mild winters and abundant food supplies, enormous and sprawling "super-nests" are surging in Alabama, with one nest even holding up to 15,000 wasps. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Photographing Romania Join us June 2020 for an 11-day photo tour exploring Romania’s most dramatic and grandiose structures. From palaces and former prisons to abandoned casinos and penitentiaries, there will be unexpected surprises on every corner. Learn more → Community Stargazing Tips What’s your best stargazing trick? Tell us about your favorite places to see the cosmic sights, any surprising tips you have for making the most of a telescope, or how else you find wonder among the stars. Share now → Nottinghamshire, England Bessie Sheppard Stone A simple 19th-century stone memorial lies largely forgotten in the undergrowth of Thieves Wood. It was dedicated to a teenager in the wake of her murder, and local legend claims that she appears every time her stone is disturbed. Read more → Fermo, Italy Roman Cisterns Through a nondescript doorway on Fermo's Via degli Aceti and down a flight of ancient stone steps lies a a 2,000-year-old engineering marvel: a remarkably well-preserved Roman cistern. Read more → ‘9-Day Queen’ New archaeological research shows that the Bradgate House in Newtown Linford sits atop what may have been the real childhood home of England's "Nine-Day Queen," Lady Jane Grey. Read more → Southampton, England Holyrood Church Ruins Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222