The crustaceans colonizing the toxic Deepwater Horizon oil spill site

The man who drives Big Boy, surreal sites, and Bakehouse Close. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. September 23, 2019 Meet Big Boy's Engineer Ed Dickens maintains the Union Pacific Railroad’s historic fleet, including the world’s largest steam locomotive, known as “Big Boy.” Enormous crowds greet the locomotive wherever it goes and give Dickens a hero’s welcome when he climbs down from the cab. Read More → Abyssal Wasteland When researchers first returned to the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, they found pretty much what one might expect: a devastated seafloor where carcasses seemed to outnumber anything living. A decade later, the site is still an abyssal wasteland, but is now full of a surprising amount of sickly, oil-spattered crabs. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Redwood Bee Tracking Join us in Redwood National Park next May as we embark on a bee-seeking expedition to help identify specimens, track populations, and explore the native wildlife. Alongside expert biologists, we’ll venture through the towering redwoods to learn about the plight of the bumblebee and help conduct research on the wild, bristly pollinator. Learn more → Community Surreal Sites Whether you’re strolling through the mind-bending wonders of the Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Holywood, Scotland, or trying not to get dizzy during your ride on the Surreal Elevator in Queens, New York, there are many surreal sites around the world. Tell us about the most unreal places you’ve been to. Share now → EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Bakehouse Close Each of the alleyways that peel off Edinburgh’s Royal Mile were given a name associated with a prosperous person or a certain profession relating to that particular passage. However, Bakehouse Close has a more salacious backstory than its name might suggest. Read more → For Sale: Bonnie and Clyde Shotgun When Bonnie and Clyde were almost captured during a 1933 raid of the Missouri apartment they were staying in, they left everything they owned. Several items found inside recently went up for auction, including a sawed-off shotgun, Bonnie's poems, and several wanted posters. Read more → JENNER, CALIFORNIA Fort Ross Just 125 miles north of San Francisco sits Fort Ross, the southernmost outpost of the old Russian Empire in what is now the United States. Read more → From our friends at Curiosity Naming Moons Until Galileo Galilei discovered moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610, the world was unaware that there were others like ours out there. Discoveries made since have been given unique individual names, but we will always know ours as simply, the Moon. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222