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Bologna's changing plant life, the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet, and the Walk Cliff Lift. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. July 11, 2019 Morbid Cakes English pastry chef Annabel De Vetten creates what may be the world’s most fantastically morbid confections. Her Birmingham studio and cooking space, the Conjurer’s Kitchen, is filled with feasts of macabre eye candy rendered with ghoulish precision. Read More → The Island That Eats Itself Nishinoshima—a volcanic island southeast of Tokyo—keeps forming new islands that engulf the original. Read more → Urban Plant Life Botanist Lucio Gabelli's century-old catalog of species is a rare snapshot of what Bologna's plant life used to look like before either World War. While it isn’t comprehensive, his work provides a baseline for the region’s changing natural environment. Read more → When you’re in the room with it, the code being transmitted is playing over a loudspeaker, and the glowing blue mercury vapor in the tubes gets brighter and dimmer along with the beeps and spaces. Magical. —hootmalalie Join the conversation → Amherst, Massachusetts Hitchcock Cabinet The Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet is an invaluable record of the Connecticut Valley's prehistoric life and contains the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States. Read more → Walden Pond Changes Scientists are using Henry David Thoreau’s detailed observations of life on Walden Pond to study the effects of climate change in Massachusetts. Read more → Bournemouth, England Walk Cliff Lift Built in 1935 in the seaside town of Bournemouth, the Fisherman’s Walk Cliff Lift takes beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore, making it the shortest funicular railway in the world. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222