
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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 fas
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Places & Travel
Society & Culture
Atlas Obscura Presents: A Trucker on Seeing the US by Road with Women Who Travel
Today we’re bringing you an episode from our friend...
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Feb 17 2025 18m
Chapter 1 16 mins
Life and Dangers of a TruckerChapter 2 2 mins
Trucking Women in Hollywood
Unusual Love Stories Week: Post Office Bay
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr...
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Feb 14 2025 13m
Chapter 1 13 mins
The Galapagos Post Office Friendship
Unusual Love Stories Week: Getting Lost with Susan Orlean
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr...
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Feb 13 2025 22m
Chapter 1 5 mins
The Power of Travel and LibrariesChapter 2 7 mins
Power of LibrariesChapter 3 13 mins
Bhutan Travel Romance and WanderlustChapter 4 1 min
Business Banking Flexibility and Support
Unusual Love Stories Week: The Museum of Broken Relationships
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr...
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Feb 12 2025 15m
Chapter 1 10 mins
Museum of Broken RelationshipsChapter 2 3 mins
Exploring Love and Loss in Relationships
Unusual Loves Stories Week: Hachiko
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr...
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Feb 11 2025 9m
Chapter 1 8 mins
The Legacy of HachikoChapter 2 39 sec
Podcast Production Credits
Unusual Love Stories Week: A Long Walk Home
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr...
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Feb 10 2025 18m
Chapter 1 18 mins
Bernie's Journey With Brick and Cracker
Send Dylan Your Questions!
We’re looking for questions for our next mailbag epi...
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Feb 8 2025 1m
Chapter 1 1 min
Interactive Mailbag Format for Listener Questions
Songs of Ice with the Places Team (Classic)
Stories of how giant monuments built for a specific ...
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Feb 7 2025 17m
Chapter 1 16 mins
The History of Ancient Ice Technology
Paul Scheer’s Life in Three Places
Dylan talks with actor and comedian Paul Scheer abou...
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Feb 6 2025 24m
Chapter 1 6 mins
Trauma and Humor in Three PlacesChapter 2 12 mins
Childhood Memories of Fire and Comic-ConChapter 3 5 mins
Uncomfortable Moments of Humiliation and Reflection
Ben Franklin’s Musical Invention
Dylan tries his hand at playing a “glass armonica,” ...
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Feb 5 2025 17m
Chapter 1 17 mins
The Glass Harmonica
Africville
Africville was a Black-Canadian community north of H...
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Feb 4 2025 15m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Story of Africville's Displacement and Endurance
First Travel Dates
Listener stories of traveling with a significant oth...
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Feb 3 2025 13m
Chapter 1 4 mins
Travel Stories of Significant OthersChapter 2 8 mins
Traveling for Memorable Experiences
Medfield State Hospital (Classic)
This abandoned hospital outside Boston, Massachusett...
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Jan 31 2025 11m
Chapter 1 10 mins
Exploring the Haunted Medfield State Hospital
Joe Magarac: The Other Man of Steel
Joe Magarac is a folk hero that allegedly was born f...
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Jan 30 2025 21m
Chapter 1 5 mins
Steelworker SuperheroChapter 2 15 mins
The Legend of Joe Magarac
More First Trips Abroad
Last month, we asked you for stories about your firs...
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Jan 29 2025 14m
Chapter 1 13 mins
First International Trip Stories
The Diving Horses of Atlantic City
For half a century, horse diving was one of Atlantic...
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Jan 28 2025 19m
Chapter 1 5 mins
The Diving Horses of Atlantic CityChapter 2 5 mins
The History of Horse DivingChapter 3 8 mins
The Last Diving Horse Rescued
Dylan’s Mailbag: Tough Trips, Controversial Airplane Etiquette, and Tattoos
Dylan and producer Johanna take your questions. ...
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Jan 27 2025 18m
Chapter 1 4 mins
Travel Resolutions and Mailbag QuestionsChapter 2 13 mins
High-Flying Adventures and Chaos
Buckley’s Cave (Classic)
One of Australia’s greatest stories of escape and su...
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Jan 24 2025 16m
Chapter 1 16 mins
The Remarkable Tale of William Buckley
The Mystery Man of Marree
In 1998, a giant drawing of an Aboriginal man myster...
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Jan 23 2025 24m
Chapter 1 10 mins
Mystery of the Maori ManChapter 2 14 mins
"Restoring the Mystery of Mari Man"
Mobile Bay’s Tidal Wave of Fish
Every summer, along a 15 mile stretch of the Alabama...
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Jan 22 2025 13m
Chapter 1 7 mins
Mystery of Mobile Bay JubileesChapter 2 6 mins
The Enchantment of Mobile Bay
Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Platinum Blonde DJ On Her Way to Laos
A traveler in Vang Vieng, Laos writes a letter to a ...
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Jan 21 2025 13m
Chapter 1 12 mins
Memories of Vang Vieng
Atlas Obscura Presents: "Bigfoot is from North Carolina" with The Broadside
Sasquatch is Southern. And its cultural and economic...
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Jan 20 2025 19m
Chapter 1 10 mins
Bigfoot in AppalachiaChapter 2 9 mins
Myth and Mystery of Bigfoot
Brown Dog Statue (Classic)
This memorial marks the life of a pup who sparked ri...
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Jan 17 2025 13m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Riots Over Brown Dog Statue
Don’t Ask Jacques Ze Whipper What He Does for a Living
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to run away...
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Jan 16 2025 20m
Chapter 1 12 mins
Life as a Renaissance Fair PerformerChapter 2 8 mins
Life as a Performer
The Town That Moved a Windmill
When Peter James first stumbled on the Lowfield Heat...
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Jan 15 2025 13m
Chapter 1 14 mins
The Moving of Lowfield Heath Windmill