Some ships keep sailing even after they’ve wrecked

Paper made from poop, a Soviet-era outdoor gym, and more. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. November 12, 2019 March of the Shipwrecks For years, a 20th-century iron boat sat lodged about 650 feet from the Canadian shore on the upper Niagara River—exactly where its two-person crew had abandoned it in August 1918. Then suddenly, this past Halloween, it moved. Read More → Paper Made From Poop In Randeniya, a small village in the lower wetlands of Sri Lanka, elephant poop takes on a second life as a renewable resource: paper. It's made at the local Eco Maximus factory from a special pulp mixture: elephant dung and off-cut, which is an industry term for scraps cut from a larger piece of paper. Read more → KEY WEST, FLORIDA U.S. Route 1 Mile 0 Sign Located on an otherwise unassuming street corner in Key West, Florida, this sign marks U.S. Route 1’s most southernmost spot. Read more → KYIV, UKRAINE Kachalka Gym In the early ’70s, the Polish gymnast Kasimir Jagelsky and mathematics professor Yuri Kuk decided to create a collective, open-air gym from recycled metal. The scraps, salvaged from old factories and landfills, were ingeniously repurposed to create an outdoor gym in Kyiv, Ukraine. Read more → Purple Urchin Minefield Bull kelp forests once sprawled across long stretches of northern California’s coastline, but in 2013 they started to vanish. Millions of sea urchins appeared in their place, carpeting the seafloor like violet-colored burrs thanks to warm water and “sea star wasting disease,” according to a new study. Read more → SPONSORED BY ICELANDAIR Arctic Circle Marker A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting geographic boundary of the Arctic Circle. Read more → TOKYO, JAPAN Koukokuji Buddhist Temple Located in a quiet corner of Shinjuku, Tokyo, this temple includes a columbarium filled with thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas that guard the ashes of the dead. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222