Podcast Episodes

Under Our Feet: Exploring the Underworld With Jessica Leigh Hester

Jessica Leigh Hester joins us on a deep dive into the sewer, the subject of her appropriately-titled book, Sewer. She and Dylan talk about some of th…

6 months ago

Priscilla’s Homecoming (Classic)

The story of Thomalind and Priscilla is 300 years in the making and brings listeners to Bunce Island, off the coast of Sierra Leone.  

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6 months ago

Traveling Grannies with Ellie and Sandy

Inspired by the novel and movie Around the World in Eighty Days, Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip (Ellie and Sandy) ventured out and took the wor…

6 months, 1 week ago

Portland’s War of the Roses

The International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon is a rose-lover’s paradise: there’s over 10,000 bushes and 625 varieties from all over the wor…

6 months, 1 week ago

Exploring Edinburgh’s Deserted Tidal Island

Since his childhood, Nick Dawson has been fascinated by Cramond Island, a deserted tidal island off the coast of Edinburgh, Scotland, which became fo…

6 months, 1 week ago

Goodbye, Summer

As the summer travel season officially closes, we share our favorite memories of the warm months – from minor league baseball games with unique tradi…

6 months, 1 week ago

Theatricum Botanicum (Classic)

A once-blacklisted Hollywood star created a magical theater in Topanga Canyon, California, that still endures and inspires today.

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6 months, 1 week ago

Sweden’s Last Night Watchman

In Ystad, Sweden, every night at 9pm a night watchman scans the horizon for fires from the tower of St Mary’s Church, and sounds his trumpet to let t…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Who Put a Crack in The Glen Canyon Dam?

Utah bookseller Ken Sanders has spent his life fighting the Glen Canyon Dam. Inspired by a band of cowboy ecoterrorists in his favorite Western novel…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Fordlandia

In the 1920s, Henry Ford decided to create a rubber plantation in the Amazon rainforest, and alongside it, a tidy little town for his workers: Fordla…

6 months, 2 weeks ago