Podcast Episodes

The Bible with a Massive Portrait of a Devil Inside

The National Library of Sweden is home to the largest medieval manuscript still in existence: an enormous, three-foot-tall Bible with an unusual port…

9 months, 1 week ago

The Mysterious Drones at Langley Air Force Base

Fifteen years ago, drones were considered toys. Today, there’s everywhere – both in the news and physically. But before the big splashy news stories …

9 months, 1 week ago

Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, and Worst Bathroom Experiences

Dylan and producers Johanna and Amanda take your questions. 

For our next mailbag, we’re looking for questions about solo travel. If you have a questi…

9 months, 1 week ago

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 r…

9 months, 1 week 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 care…

9 months, 1 week 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 ba…

9 months, 1 week 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 inte…

9 months, 2 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 c…

9 months, 2 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 th…

9 months, 2 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…

9 months, 2 weeks ago