The remains of Route 66 are still lined with road trippers' old trash

12 places at risk from flooding, the Ring of Life, and more. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. November 19, 2019 Welcome to the ‘Throw Zone’ Though Route 66 is out of commission, you can still visit portions of its old path, and if you look closely in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park, you'll find evidence of the drivers and passengers of decades past—in the form of garbage they chucked out their windows. Read More → 12 Places at Risk From Flooding As climate change pushes sea levels higher, floods like the one that submerged parts of Venice last week are likely to become more common. More extreme and more frequent flooding is just as big of a concern in Naples, Florida, as in Naples, Italy. Here are 12 historic places that are at risk from rising waters. Read more → FUSHUN, CHINA Ring of Life In 2009, plans were made to create a new town between the two industrial cities of Shenyang and Fushun in the northeast of China. Shenfu New Town never exactly turned into the city they planned, but they did build a massive 515-foot-tall steel ring embedded with around 12,000 LED lights. Read more → Video What Is An Antiquarian Horologist? Meet Nico Cox, an antiquarian horologist whose job is to bring mechanical antiques, such as clocks, watches, and automatons, back to life. Watch as we go behind the scenes of her workshop, learn what her oldest tools are, and what whales have to do with watches. Watch now → Winning Back Duluwat Island For the Wiyot Tribe, California’s Duluwat Island is more than an ancestral homeland; it's their spiritual center of the universe and a place of great power. But in 1860, after more than a hundred Wiyot people were massacred there, they fled. The tribe has fought to return for more than a century and last month, it finally happened. Read more → Kalamata, Greece Church of the Holy Apostles The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary. Read more → From our friends at Curiosity A Silent Place The most endangered sound on Earth doesn't come from a near-extinct animal or an outmoded form of transportation: it's silence. And a one-square-inch section of Hoh River Valley deep in Washington's Olympic National Park might be one of the last quiet places in the United States. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222