Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVent Haven Museum (Classic)
This museum in Kentucky is either your dream place or your nightmare, depending on how you feel about dummies. Because there are more than 500 of the…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Kelly McEvers and New Mexico: A Love Story
As we approach Valentine’s Day, Atlas Obscura co-host Kelly McEvers shares two stories about a state that has a special place in her heart: New Mexic…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
This "Burning Town” Is Thriving
Centralia, Pennsylvania also attained a sort of cult favorite status -- often discussed a place you cannot and should not visit. But in this episode,…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Meet the Woman Visiting Every Museum in NYC
Jane August has set a goal to visit every single one of NYC’s roughly 200 museums. She’s chronicling her journey on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram at…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Planting Seeds for the Future
In honor of Black History Month, we are bringing you two stories about people who used nature to change their environment and communities.
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6 months, 2 weeks ago
Flavor Graveyard (Classic)
Behind the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont sits a very peculiar graveyard... one dedicated to dearly departed ice cream flavors.
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6 months, 3 weeks ago
Carville National Leprosarium
We visit a remarkable institution where people with Hansen's disease, or leprosy, learned to play music, had Mardi Gras parties, and published their …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Untold Story of Alice Ball
In 1930, the King of Thailand gifted a tree to the University of Hawaii in Manoa for developing a treatment for leprosy. For decades, the tree has st…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Piltdown Man: England’s Most Notorious Science Hoax
In 1912, Piltdown, England wasn’t known for much. It was a quiet rural area with farms, winding tree-lined roads, and a pub. But then, a lawyer annou…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Great Venus Fly Trap Heist
This story is about a heist that took place back in 2013 – not at a museum, or a gallery, or a royal palace, but at a garden. What these thieves were…
6 months, 3 weeks ago