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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

995 Episodes By SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura www.stitcher.com
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 ...more
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Atlas Obscura Presents: A Trucker on Seeing the US by Road with Women Who Travel
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Feb 17 2025 18m
Finding Purpose Through Truck Driving
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Unusual Love Stories Week: Post Office Bay
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr... more
Feb 14 2025 13m
Postcard Exchange Sparks Unexpected Friendship
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Unusual Love Stories Week: Getting Lost with Susan Orlean
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr... more
Feb 13 2025 22m
Library's Influence on Travel and Writing
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Unusual Love Stories Week: The Museum of Broken Relationships
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Feb 12 2025 15m
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Unusual Loves Stories Week: Hachiko
This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – fr... more
Feb 11 2025 9m
Hachiko Statue at Shibuya Station
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Unusual Love Stories Week: A Long Walk Home
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Feb 10 2025 18m
Life on the Ranch With Bernie
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Send Dylan Your Questions!
We’re looking for questions for our next mailbag epi... more
Feb 8 2025 1m
Ask Me Anything - Q&A Session
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Songs of Ice with the Places Team (Classic)
Stories of how giant monuments built for a specific ... more
Feb 7 2025 17m
Capturing Snowflakes Through Photography
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Paul Scheer’s Life in Three Places
Dylan talks with actor and comedian Paul Scheer abou... more
Feb 6 2025 24m
Family Trips to Rocking Horse Ranch
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Ben Franklin’s Musical Invention
Dylan tries his hand at playing a “glass armonica,” ... more
Feb 5 2025 17m
Wonders of the Glass Harmonica
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Africville
Africville was a Black-Canadian community north of H... more
Feb 4 2025 15m
Legacy of Africville Residents
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First Travel Dates
Listener stories of traveling with a significant oth... more
Feb 3 2025 13m
Traveling With a Significant Other
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Medfield State Hospital (Classic)
This abandoned hospital outside Boston, Massachusett... more
Jan 31 2025 11m
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Joe Magarac: The Other Man of Steel
Joe Magarac is a folk hero that allegedly was born f... more
Jan 30 2025 21m
Mythical Superhuman Immigrant Steelworker
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More First Trips Abroad
Last month, we asked you for stories about your firs... more
Jan 29 2025 14m
Personal Growth Through International Travel
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The Diving Horses of Atlantic City
For half a century, horse diving was one of Atlantic... more
Jan 28 2025 19m
The Legacy of the Diving Horse
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Dylan’s Mailbag: Tough Trips, Controversial Airplane Etiquette, and Tattoos
Dylan and producer Johanna take your questions.     ... more
Jan 27 2025 18m
Jeremy Bentham
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Buckley’s Cave (Classic)
One of Australia’s greatest stories of escape and su... more
Jan 24 2025 16m
Challenges of Early Australian Colonization
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The Mystery Man of Marree
In 1998, a giant drawing of an Aboriginal man myster... more
Jan 23 2025 24m
Mysterious Fax Leads Peter on Adventure
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Mobile Bay’s Tidal Wave of Fish
Every summer, along a 15 mile stretch of the Alabama... more
Jan 22 2025 13m
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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 ... more
Jan 21 2025 13m
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Atlas Obscura Presents: "Bigfoot is from North Carolina" with The Broadside
Sasquatch is Southern. And its cultural and economic... more
Jan 20 2025 19m
Exploring Bigfoot Folklore and Myth
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Brown Dog Statue (Classic)
This memorial marks the life of a pup who sparked ri... more
Jan 17 2025 13m
Uncovering Animal Abuse in 1903
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Don’t Ask Jacques Ze Whipper What He Does for a Living
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to run away... more
Jan 16 2025 20m
Running Away to the Circus
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The Town That Moved a Windmill
When Peter James first stumbled on the Lowfield Heat... more
Jan 15 2025 13m
Passion for Windmill Restoration
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