Meet the dedicated snailers of Hawai’i

A 19th-century lighthouse for sale, Georgia Tech's "living building," and more. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. November 26, 2019 Meet the Snailers of Hawai’i Endemic land snails once sprawled across the Hawaiian islands, but have all but vanished due to threats from invasive species, human development, and shell collectors. Now, a group of “snailers” are poring over the island’s last truly wild refuges in pursuit of the small gastropods. Read More → Atlas Obscura Trips Last Chance: Past Future Monuments of the Balkans On this dramatic 13-day road trip across Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina next April, we’ll explore the Balkans in search of spomeniks, Yugoslav memorial sites. However, it won’t just be concrete and steel we’re looking at. Along the way we’ll see mountains and lakes, explore underground tunnels, stay in Brutalist hotels, dig into local cuisines, and get to know the people who make up this diverse region of Eastern Europe. Learn more → For Sale: A 19th-Century Lighthouse The Sand Key lighthouse, six miles off the shore of Key West, Florida, is up for grabs in a public auction. The winner doesn’t actually get to use the light—that job is now handled by a modern light mounted on a nearby pole—but the new owner will acquire a beautiful storied screw-pile structure from the 19th century. Read more → Video The Great Giant Pumpkin Race Every October, the people of Goffstown, New Hampshire, come prepared with supersized squash for the Giant Pumpkin Regatta. Here, giant pumpkins are weighed, sliced, scooped, then transformed into boats, which participants race down the river. How hard could it be? Watch now → Atlanta, Georgia Kendeda Building This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels. Read more → Madrid, Spain Pantheon of Illustrious Men Built between 1892 and 1899, this architectural complex was meant to be the cloister of a great basilica that would serve as the final resting place of some of Spain’s most prominent politicians, but was ultimately never finished. Read more → JOHNSON CREEK, WISCONSIN Gobbler Theater When it opened in 1969, this bar featured a turkey-centric dinner menu and allowed patrons to dance in the “Roost,” a circular dance floor suspended from the ceiling over a rotating bar. While it’s lost the turkey theme, this supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar. Read more → From our friends at Curiosity Prehistoric Animals Leaving out the dinosaurs, the ancient past is full of jumbo versions of modern creatures like sloths, armadillos, and rhinoceroses. From a four-winged bird to whales with tusks, there's a lot more to the prehistoric ancestors of modern creatures than their tendency to grow to giant proportions. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222