Podcast Episodes

Our Favorite Objects: The Arrow Stork (Classic)

The story of a stork, a spear and a scientific mystery that led to breakthroughs in the way we understand bird migration.

All week, we’re featuring th…

1 year ago

Our Favorite Things: World’s Oldest Edible Ham (Classic)

Atlas Obscura’s resident food and death reporter Sam O’Brien takes us to Smithfield, Virginia, where we meet a 120-year-old ham, and the people who l…

1 year ago

Our Favorite Objects: The Thousand-Year Rose (Classic)

We visit the world’s oldest rose, which is so tough that it survived being bombed in World War II.

All week, we’re featuring the stories behind a few…

1 year ago

Our Favorite Objects: The Spritz Cookie Gravestone (Classic)

We explore the unexpected combination of recipes and graves through the story of Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies.

All week, we’re featurin…

1 year ago

Our Favorite Objects: Galileo's Middle Finger (Classic)

Dylan goes on a journey to examine the preserved middle finger of astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei.

All week, we’re featuring the s…

1 year ago

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Classic)

Created by a volcanic eruption in 2015, this island in the South Pacific no longer exists… but we chat with a person who got to see it before it disa…

1 year ago

Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

We talk with anthropologist Manvir Singh, whose research on shamanism took him from the small island of Siberut to study current practitioners, to ex…

1 year ago

Dylan’s Mailbag: Traveling With Kids, Girls’ Trips, and Pedal Pubs

Dylan has just returned from a month-long trip with his family, and he and the gang answer listener questions about traveling with kids and more. 

Hav…

1 year ago

This Is Your Commute

Listeners share stories about how they commute to work and back home as they also reflect on how special their neighborhood is too. 

Plus: We wanna he…

1 year ago

Time Travel with a Parking Lot Dinosaur

Earlier this year a geologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science got a very unusual phone call. A construction crew ripping up the museum’s p…

1 year ago