The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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726 episodes
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Date created
2021/02/26
Average duration
14 min.
Release period
2 days

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An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.

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Hints of Home
2024/02/27
Listeners share their stories of places that made them feel at home, from the beaches of Australia to a ubiquitous coffee shop. WE WANT YOUR STORIES! We’re working on a new slate of episodes that will feature listener stories, and want to hear yours. Tell us about your hometown’s weird or unique local tradition. Walk us through what goes down—who’s there and what’s happening? Is there an interesting history behind it? What was your relationship to this tradition like when you were growing up—did you partake? What’s your relationship to it now? Did/does it play a role in how you think about the world, or the corner of it you come from? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Just so you know, our mailbox will cut you off after two minutes so please call in if you get disconnected. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at Hello@Atlas Obscura.com.
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Hotel Theresa (Classic)
2024/02/26
The Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York played a pivotal role in the influential neighborhood’s cultural identity.
Eastern State Penitentiary (Classic)
2024/02/23
The founders of this prison in Philadelphia aimed to revolutionize incarceration for the better - and unintentionally created new horrors. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eastern-state-penitentiary
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Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
2024/02/22
A producer revisits her hometown (Houston) and goes to the Buffalo Soldiers Museum, learning about the contributions of Black members of the armed forces and one man in particular, who started the collection years ago in his garage.
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Stone of Destiny
2024/02/21
This giant rock has been used in the coronation of every English monarch since the 1300s, but is it authentic? Or could the real one be in a Scottish bar? We parse through the evidence and debate! READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glasgows-stone-of-destiny
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World’s Loneliest House
2024/02/20
We visit the misnamed “world’s loneliest house” and visit the flocks of puffins who live there. Some people want to eat them, some want to protect them. And these two groups collide here. If you want to learn more about the puffin situation in the Westman Islands, check out our episode called Puffin Patrol – about a community that sweeps the streets each night looking for lost pufflings and helping them find their way back to the beach. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ellidaey-island-lodge
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Boston’s Blue Hill
2024/02/19
We take a hike up Great Blue Hill in Boston and get more than a stunning view of the city. A visit to the peak reveals the story of a weather observatory with the longest continuous daily weather record in the United States.
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The Goiter Belt (Classic)
2024/02/16
A public health crisis plagued the Midwest until a simple solution was introduced to a ubiquitous cooking ingredient.
Damanhur
2024/02/15
A mysterious religious community founded by an insurance agent-turned spiritual leader in northern Italy spent 15 years constructing an underground temple covered in intricate paintings, mosaics, trippy colors and images inspired by Roman, Greek and Egyptian mythology. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/temple-of-damanhur
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Owamni
2024/02/14
Award-winning chef Sean Sherman, aka the Sioux Chef, has dedicated his Minneapolis restaurant to decolonized food and honoring indigenous meal traditions READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/owamni
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Toy Story
2024/02/13
Mexico City is known for its museum and art scene. The collection at El Museo del Juguete Antiguo – The Antique Toy Museum – encourages visitors to lean into their imaginations – and reflect on the rich history and culture in this city.
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Robert Is Here
2024/02/12
We go to south Florida and hear the story of a family that took a gamble on a humble roadside stand that blossomed into a fruit emporium and community staple. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-is-here
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Ottoman Bird Palaces

2022/08/03

Dylan Thuras 0:04
Turkeys for the birds. I mean, every year, millions of birds migrate from Europe to Africa, by way of Turkey. There are Red Hawks, there are Imperial Eagles there are storks, and so many more.

Unknown Speaker 0:20
And some of these birds like storks passing through the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and also the Jerusalem and people considering this verse it kind of like pilgrims.

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Underwater Places

2022/08/02

Hey everybody, Dylan here. So I do not know how to scuba dive I've I've never taken the lessons. But a few months ago, I got to go to Tarpon Springs, Florida and get to sort of play at being a professional sponge diver for a day, I didn't have to do a real scuba I was on a kind of oxygen line, so that I could go underwater and walk around on the ocean floor, but not have to be fully certified. Anyway, it was a crazy experience I got to put on this original copper 150 pound dive suit was kind of like this astronaut Frankenstein being and slow and heavy walking on the, you know, bottom of the ocean, I was only 12 feet underwater. But anyway, it was just this incredible experience. And being there deep under the water was like stepping into another universe. It was filled with life and mysterious creatures and things growing and it was just completely and totally magical. And it got me thinking about all of the strange, incredible wonders that are found underneath the oceans at the bottom of lakes. And so today, we're joined by the Atlas Obscura places editors Jonathan Kerry and Michelle Cassidy, who are choosing two stories to tell us that both take place deep underwater. First is Jonathan Kerry, who's going to take us to the sunken crosses of Malbec gay, get ready and dive down deep with us under the blue sea of the palm of Spain.

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Concrete Animals of Mexico

2022/08/01

Abby Perrault 0:04
Under Solana row has an eye are gazing into the face of a concrete crocodile.

Unknown Speaker 0:09
It has seen better days, that poor thing. Now it's green, rain, bluish. It used to be more green. Or actually

Abby Perrault 0:17
we're looking at where part of his face should be but has fallen off.

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Classic: Milo Bitters

2022/07/29

Abby Perrault 0:04
Under Solana row has an eye are gazing into the face of a concrete crocodile.

Unknown Speaker 0:09
It has seen better days, that poor thing. Now it's green, rain, bluish. It used to be more green. Or actually

Abby Perrault 0:17
we're looking at where part of his face should be but has fallen off.

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Plain of Jars

2022/07/28

Dylan Thuras 0:02
The first time he visited the Plain of Jars, so yeah, it was it was a university student. He'd been hearing about these giant ancient jars carved from rock since he was an elementary school. Why did your family decide to go see the Plain of Jars?

Unknown Speaker 0:18
Oh, because everyone wants to visit this for once term of their life.

Unknown Speaker 0:23
Like a bucket list?

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4.5 out of 5
1279 reviews
Mama Dookie 2023/11/13
Please stop frying.
Please, stop with this affection. It’s distracting and makes it appear that you’re too exhausted to finish a sentence.
docvail 2024/02/14
Hard to understand
The topic is so fantastic but Baudelaire is so hard to understand. He drops his voice and we lose the meaning of what is being spoken. Please re-recor...
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Doikees 2024/02/03
Podcasts are radical!
Two is funnier than one. At least those dorky car guys had fun.
RoarMck 2024/01/28
Always interesting
Great show about strange and wonderful places around the world. I always find some interesting episode to listen to.
BNL1961 2024/01/11
Glamorizes animal abuse
This podcast has good information but it is despicable the way they normalize and glamorize animal abuse. For that reason I took away 4 stars. Too har...
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j footprint 2023/12/29
Brushes with the Unknown… jump the shark?
12/28/2023: Um, I don’t think Abbey Perreault knows what “anthropomorphizing“ means… Hard to come across as a knowledgeable podcast that way. One ...
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Kdog770 2023/12/04
Good stuff
Always enjoy every new installment about our wonderful world. And I also make it a point to listen to the credits at the end to make sure the great “l...
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Young buck too 2023/11/08
Interesting content
I enjoy the variety and novelty of the show, but the vocal fry of the host for “a long walk home“ was highly distracting. I found myself focusing more...
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Tslldaa 2023/11/02
Love this
The content is great and I like that some episodes are just 15-ish minutes because it's hard for me to stay focused sometimes. But, there are so many ...
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itsdavie 2023/10/30
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