Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThanksgiving Special: Church of Turkey
Gastro Obscura writer Sam O’Brien takes co-host Kelly McEvers on a tour of the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous tributes to the turkey – and…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Weaving Together the History of Carpets
Carpets are everyday objects we rarely stop to think about. But they’re far more than decoration or something soft to step on. Each one holds an orig…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Bottle Tree Ranch
When Elliott Long’s dad started planting a forest of “bottle trees” with trunks of steel and old bottles for leaves, Elliott immediately understood t…
4 months ago
Frozen Dead Guy (Classic)
Atop a mountain in a picturesque Colorado town is the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be, from the person w…
4 months ago
The Atlas Obscura Podcast Presents: The Detour
Today, we’re sharing an episode from The Detour: a show about going places, that actually goes places. Host Sam O’Brien and geologist Becky Nesel tak…
4 months ago
Italy’s Bomb Squad (Classic)
We chat with writer Alessio Perrone about what he learned from the people who hunt for Italy’s unexploded bombs, leftover from times of war.
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4 months ago
The Revolutionary Life of the Black-Owned Bookstore with Char Adams
Char Adams is the author of Black Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore. She chronicles Black-owned bookstores in America – from David…
4 months ago
The Museum of Yogurt
In 1905, a Bulgarian named Stamen Grigorov made a discovery. Inspired by a wave of researchers studying the secret to long life, he decided to put un…
4 months ago
The Chinampas in Xochimilco
Reporter Teresa de Miguel joins host Kelly McEvers to talk to her about these floating gardens called Chinapas in Xochimilco, Mexico City. Today, man…
4 months, 1 week ago
Snake Island (Classic)
A tiny island off the coast of Brazil is known for being a dangerous place … purely because its inhabitants are, well, snakes. But we speak to a rese…
4 months, 1 week ago