Found: 17th-century warships at the bottom of a Swedish channel

Capturing Manhattan’s single-story buildings, exploding lava, and more. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. November 13, 2019 Found: 17th-Century Warships In August 1628, King Gustav Adolf of Sweden launched his top-of-the-line warship, Vasa, on its maiden voyage out of Stockholm. Everything was going swimmingly, until the ship decided to sink instead of swim. Now, two newly discovered wrecks from the same era may be the remains of the more successful warships that followed. Read More → BANDE, SPAIN Aquis Querquennis Short pillars, ruined walls, arches, and a moat form the foundations of this former Roman military camp along a flooded section of Spain’s Lima River. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Art in New Orleans Join us on a five-day trip next March as we traverse New Orleans with one foot rooted firmly in its history and the other in its ongoing cultural renaissance. We’ll weave our way through the city’s residential neighborhoods, where most of the local artists, creators, and community builders can be found busy at work. Learn more → Video Watch Us Make Lava Explode What is a lava lab? To answer that question, we joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit Dr. Ingo Sonder at the University of Buffalo New York, where he is researching explosive reactions between magma and water in order to one day predict volcanic eruptions. Watch now → Capturing Manhattan’s Single Story Buildings Starting in 2015, Adam Friedberg, a photographer living and working in New York City’s East Village, roamed through the Village and the Lower East Side in search of single-story buildings. To date, he has photographed 100 of them, from storefront churches to garages, warehouses, and bars. Fifty-four of his large-format, black-and-white images will be on view at the Center for Architecture beginning November 21. Read more → LONDON, ENGLAND Wellington Monument This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles in London’s Hyde Park was cast out of 33 tons of bronze from enemy cannons captured in several early 1800s battles. Read more → EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Innocent Railway Path The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists near the foot of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222