Podcast Episodes

We Want To Hear From You: Love & Travel

We want to hear about your favorite unusual local date spots. One rule: No romantic restaurants! Where are the places that you bust out when you’re really trying to impress someone with an obscure, o…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Super Museum (Classic)

A midwest city has embraced what it means to be the namesake hometown of one very famous superhero. And at its center is a museum that holds the carefully cultivated collection of one superfan. 

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Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Wall of Sound

In the 1960s, the band the Grateful Dead became consumed by a quest that would take up 10 years, cost millions of dollars, and almost break up the band. It was the quest for audio perfection – to bri…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Where We Would Spend Our Last Day Before the Apocalypse

The staff here at Atlas Obscura answered an unsettling question for this episode: Where would you spend the last day before the apocalypse? Some interesting truths come out. 

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Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

How to Dine Like an Ancient Philosopher

An ancient book contains a controversial Greek recipe, one of the earliest examples of patent law, and answers for a perennial problem: how to make conversation at a dinner party. 

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Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Library on the Border

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in the United States. For over a century, it was a symbol of friendship between the two nations. Then, the library got caught in the…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Week: Discovery Tree

We visit one of California’s longest-running tourist attractions: A giant stump that helped spark the movement to preserve the state’s natural places.

For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itin…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Week: The Allagash Four

On a summer day in 1976, four friends had a strange experience in the Northwoods of Maine that would come back to haunt them decades later. Today, we’re exploring the hidden morbid side of the nation…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Week: Montezuma Well

We visit a mysterious sinkhole in Arizona that has befuddled an exclusive group of divers who’ve gotten a glimpse of a strange world at its sandy bottom. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat …

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

National Parks Week: Yellowstone’s Zone of Death

A 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho might just be the perfect place to commit a crime. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura E…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago