The remains of Martha’s Vineyard’s mysterious sunken ship

How to embrace wolves, curious carousels, and Everest's plastic ban. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. August 28, 2019 Mysterious Shipwreck More than 150 years after a ship capsized, an assemblage of wooden planks and rusty iron bolts were found poking out of East Beach on Chappaquiddick Island. Read More → Embracing Wolves After the extinction of the Ezo wolf in 1889, Japan’s deer population has flourished to the point of overpopulation. As deer continue to take a toll on forests and farms, the Japan Wolf Association is looking to reintroduce wolves to the ecosystem, but they have to convince the public first. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Just Announced: Silk Road of Central Asia Join us on an epic two-week, four-country road trip next May as we wind through Kazakh bazaars, wade in Kyrgyzstan’s glassy Issyk-kul lake, explore a former Soviet military base in Tajikistan, and wander through Uzbekistan’s ancient Silk Road cities. We’ll cover over 2,000 miles of a dazzling diversity of art, music, and architecture and over two millennia of history. Learn more → Community Curious Carousels Carousels are much more than just nostalgic carnival relics. Most are grand mechanical antiques, exhibiting a level of craftsmanship rarely seen in the modern age of sleek amusement rides. Tell us about the most amazing and iconic carousels that you’ve ever seen or ridden. Share now → For Sale: Abdication Speech A signed copy of the abdication speech given by King Edward VIII at Fort Belvedere in 1936 is now up for auction and is expected to sell for at least $3,000. Read more → Everest Plastic Ban In an attempt to address the troubling amount of trash on the trail and high-altitude base camps, Nepal recently announced that single-use plastics will be banned from Mount Everest and the surrounding region, starting January 2020. Read more → Sponsored by Icelandair Giant Beer Can Standing two stories high and reaching the top of the Viking Brewery, this giant golden beer can greets anyone who visits the brewery in northern Iceland. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222