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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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1An old friend takes us under the streets of Instanbul and into an encounter with Medusa.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/basilica-cisterns-istanbul
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A boxy, Brutalist building in Silver Spring, Maryland contains one of the greatest collections of disease, injury, and human body bits ever assembled.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/national-museum-of-health-and-medicine
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The strangest, most famous resident from this Colorado town happens to be a headless fowl.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mike-the-headless-chicken
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We go to the Westman Islands off the southern coast of Iceland and meet the heroes who save young birds that have wandered from their nests every summer.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-puffin-colony
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There was a time when we didn't walk around with computers in our pockets and exploring a new place required a paper map. In this episode, we dig into the ultimate debate: has technology ruined or elevated travel? Send us your questions about traveling or tell us a story by emailing a voice message to hello@atlasobscura.com
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Inside a living, breathing collection of sourdough starters in Belgium.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sourdough-library
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A listener tells us about a treasure buried in his literal backyard, and the two strange men who showed up on his doorstep and asked to dig it up.
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A mind-tripping place where the art stands out not because of what's on them but what's in them.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/institute-illegal-images
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A special journey told in two parts, beginning with the world’s largest conveyor belt in the Western Sahara and ending on your dinner plate
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/moroccan-wall-of-western-sahara
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A special journey told in two parts, beginning with the world’s largest conveyor belt in the Western Sahara and ending on your dinner plate.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-world-s-longest-conveyor-belt-system-bou-craa-morocco
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Today we flip the focus from the memorable places we visit to the memorable people we meet on our adventures.
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A listener takes us to a town on the edge of the longest undefended border in the world. Our theme and end credit music was composed by Sam Tyndall.
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After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hachiko-hachi-shibuya-station
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The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-thousand-year-rose-hildesheim-germany
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A Canadian community comes together to save its slithering neighbors... the largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/narcisse-snake-dens
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Humans have a primal need to honor their dead. We take you on a tour of our favorite communist mummies.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/atlas-obscura-s-guide-to-communist-mummies
Our theme and end credit music was composed by Sam Tyndall.
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Giant busts of U.S. presidents are slowly crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/president-heads
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A spectacular art installation is hidden inside an all-luxury shopping mall in Las Vegas.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/akhob
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Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/frank-lloyd-wrights-burnham-block
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A swath of land in Northern France still bears scars of the destruction of World War I. Destruction so bad that, in some cases, humans have never been allowed to return.
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge
Our theme and end credit music was composed by Sam Tyndall.
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Another great episode. Also, good to hear I'm not the only person who has had to re-grow a sourdough starter!
Fascinating subject. I really feel that living architecture is the way to go.
so happy to find this podcast!
The emphasis on responsible travel and benefiting locals is refreshing. Looking forward to more conscientious world exploration in this podcast!
Oh wicked! Very true on we all live, work, and die on land with a unique history.
Oh wow! Very scary. Glad the local community was able to pull a positive from this environmental disaster.
🗺️ Can't wait for this new podcast (3.15.21)