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Hear from the caretakers of a ghost town in Bolivia that was once the world's highest ski resort.
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12 Days of Wonder: Luciadagen
In honor of Lucia Day on December 13, we’re diving into the origins of a Swedish holiday tradition which evolved from sinister pagan lore to a celebr…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
12 Days of Wonder: World's Loneliest Tree
About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles a…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
12 Days of Wonder: Return to Recipe Graves
Gastro Obscura’s senior editor Sam O’Brien returns to the podcast to go deeper with us on her strange beat – recipes etched into gravestones. We prob…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
12 Days of Wonder: Hot Ale Flip
We visit the taverns of colonial America to take a frothy sip of the hot ale flip and how it helped pave the way for contemporary mixology.
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5 months ago
12 Days of Wonder: Empress Anna's Ice Palace
Empress Anna’s Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia was the site of an incredibly strange wedding. Was it a cruel joke? A strategic power move? Or so…
5 months ago
12 Days of Wonder: Toy Story
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 l…
5 months ago
12 Days of Wonder: Tumbleweed Christmas Tree
This is how you do Christmas in the desert. Every year, the city of Chandler, Arizona creates a Christmas Tree made entirely of the diaspore of this …
5 months ago
The Last Seltzer Factory in Brooklyn
Seltzer has been around for thousands of years. And one factory in Brooklyn, New York called the Brooklyn Seltzer Boys is preserving the history of t…
5 months ago
Fasnacht
Around 60 people live full time in the town of Helvetia, West Virginia. But once a year, the population swells to 20 times its size – when masked rev…
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