Tracking the ‘ghost footprints’ of White Sands National Monument

Retracing Ghana's old slave trail, Castello del Catajo, and more. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. December 02, 2019 ‘Ghost Footprints’ Thousands of years ago, mammoths, humans, and ground sloths left their tracks speckled across New Mexico's White Sands National Monument. Often referred to as "ghost footprints," they're frequently invisible because they're blanketed by sand, but ground-penetrating radar is now helping researchers study and bring these footprints into view. Read More → Retracing Ghana’s Old Slave Trail The story of slavery does not begin with the Middle Passage. The insidious trade began farther inland, in villages and camps, through long forced marches to coastal castles where people were eventually loaded onto ships for a life of servitude. Follow the trail across hundreds of miles of Ghana, a country that this year invited the global diaspora to see the history of the slave trade firsthand. Read more → Battaglia Terme, Italy Castello del Catajo Known as the Royal Palace of the Euganean Hills, this often overlooked castle has been home for multiple noble families over the centuries. Read more → SPONSORED BY MITSUBISHI MOTORS Discover Asheville's Hidden Gardens Drive up the Blue Ridge Parkway, a winding mountain road just north of Asheville, North Carolina, and you’ll reach the Craggies, a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s home to some of the most breathtaking vistas, but what makes the extra special is the show-stopping display of the pinks and reds of rhododendron bushes that are in full bloom in spring. Watch Now→ Photographers Take on the World’s Walls, Borders, and Barriers The 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall helped inspire a new exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. With more than 70 artists and photographers participating, it presents a rich range of how dividers around the world are portrayed—and it’s not all simply about architecture. Read more → Logan, Ohio Hocking Hills Caves Striking rock formations speckle this Ohio park filled with gorges and caves that were formed by the Wisconsin Glacier thousands of years ago. Read more → From the archives Cincinnati Built a Subway System–But Never Used It The Cincinnati subway stations are still there. But if you’re still waiting for a train to come, you’ve been waiting for almost a century. To this day Cincinnati remains home to the largest unused subway system in the world, with over two miles of empty tunnels. But why? Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222