Meet California’s vintage sign hunters

Giant sandstone towers, terrific topiary gardens, and Eurasia's oldest tiny tools. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. October 08, 2019 Vintage Sign Nerds A group of photo-taking, model-making obsessives is documenting California’s vintage signs before they vanish. One man in particular is creating miniature acrylic models of his favorite signs as a way to memorialize past signs he’s loved and honor those still standing. Read More → ADRŠPACH, CZECHIA Adršpach-Teplice Rocks Guarded by the Gothic Gate, this Czech forest is filled with enormous sandstone towers. Read more → New Second Edition Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, the second edition of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders adds 100 more curious places and 12 guides for cities like Mexico City, Cairo, and more. Pre-order now → Video Texas's Bat Man Meet Merlin Tuttle, a bat conservationist who has been studying bats in every major habitat zone around the world for 60 years. To Merlin, bats aren’t just symbols of vampiric lore; they protect entire ecosystems and prevent insects from destroying agricultural crops. Watch now → Eurasia’s Oldest Tiny Tools Found in a Sri Lankan cave, the oldest microlithic “toolkit” in Europe and Asia reveals just some of the ways these tools enabled human life in the jungle. They provided the ability to hunt and butcher smaller game that wouldn’t have been well suited to bigger, clunkier tools or weapons. Read more → Baby Alaskan Fur Seals Once hunted to the brink of extinction by Russian fur traders, northern fur seals have found a strange sort of oasis on Bogoslof Island, a tiny patch of land north of the Aleutian Islands that is technically at the tip of an undersea volcano. Read more → VILNIUS, LITHUANIA Palace of Concerts and Sports Like many of its contemporary buildings, this post-Stalin era sports hall was constructed in the Brutalist architectural style that had been popularized by Western nations. Completed in 1971, this sports center remained in use after the collapse of the Soviet Union until it was abandoned in 2004. Read more → Sponsored by Visit halifax Littleton Museum and Ghost Tours Dedicated to the study and display of creatures and phenomena not recognized by traditional science, this museum in Littleton, North Carolina, is anything but normal. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222