The Liverpool beach covered with Blitz rubble from World War II

Wild bee hotels, 'Hobbit houses,' and a mastodon's homecoming. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. November 08, 2019 Blitz Rubble Beach The rubble scattered across Liverpool’s Crosby Beach isn’t exactly a secret; it had been discovered countless times before by locals and visitors, but the long stretch of beach has never been officially recognized for what it is—archaeologically valuable wreckage from World War II. Now one undergraduate archaeologist is trying to change that. Read More → Wild Bee Hotels In Colorado, the task of saving bees from the consequences of climate change has fallen to the girls who sell us the best cookies. Over the summer, at a day camp in Denver, Girl Scout troops fashioned bee hotels, tiny homes for wild bees, to help fight the depopulation of bees across the country. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Vietnam Culinary Adventure On this nine-day journey next February, we’ll explore Vietnam through its unique cuisine, tasting our way across North, Central, and South Vietnam by way of steaming pork belly meatballs in Hanoi’s Old Quarter and white rose dumplings in Hoi An. Along the way, we’ll learn from local chefs, sample street eats, and savor freshly caught seafood. Learn more → CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA ‘Hobbit Houses’ Three storybook homes hidden in downtown Culver City look like they're straight out of the Shire. Read more → FAYETTEVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA Brooklyn Ruins Not much remains of the small mining town of Brooklyn. It was one of the last mining camps to be developed in West Virginia's New River area before the Finlow mine was permanently closed in the late 1950s. Read more → Mastodon Homecoming Named for the painter and naturalist Charles Willson Peale, “Peale’s mastodon" was a wonder of paleontology and patriotism, excavated when the young United States had something to prove. The skeleton is making its way back home to North America for a new exhibit at the Smithsonian. But how exactly do you cart a half-ton, long-dead elephant cousin from Germany across the Atlantic and into a gallery? Read more → JAMESTOWN, RHODE ISLAND Conanicut Island Lighthouse Don’t be so quick to judge the Conanicut Island Lighthouse. At the northernmost point of Jamestown, Rhode Island, the seemingly unremarkable house is actually a decommissioned lighthouse. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222