Podcast Episodes

We Want to Know: What’s a Place You Love That Has Defied Its Bad Reputation?

We want to hear about a place you love that has defied its bad reputation. Maybe there’s a drab local mall that’s full of chain stores and overpriced…

1 year, 2 months ago

Pyramid of Djoser

Travel to the world’s oldest intact pyramid in Egypt - and learn about the genius who also influenced the fields of architecture, astronomy, medicine…

1 year, 2 months ago

A Glass Palace in the Arizona Desert

In September 1991, eight people moved into Biosphere 2, a nearly airtight glass and steel complex in the Arizona desert. The half-acre farm at its ce…

1 year, 2 months ago

The Last Home Napoleon Would Know

In the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, on the tiny island of Saint Helena, sits the Longwood House. It was the final home of Napoleon Bonaparte. …

1 year, 2 months ago

The Cave Below Minneapolis

An urban explorer ventured deep below downtown Minneapolis in search of Schieks Cave. He discovered more than he bargained for. 

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1 year, 2 months ago

The 6-Day Race

For a brief window in the late 1800s, America’s favorite sport was walking in circles over and over and over. The biggest sporting events in the coun…

1 year, 2 months ago

Times Square Hum (Classic)

Producer Johanna Mayer travels to Times Square in NYC,  in search of particular sound that may sometimes go overlooked. 

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1 year, 3 months ago

President Heads (Classic)

What to do when you have 20-foot-tall busts of nearly every U.S. President and nowhere to put them?

This episode was produced in partnership with Visi…

1 year, 3 months ago

Dreamland Resort

Dylan visits a patch of Nevada desert known at times as Paradise Ranch, Dreamland Resort, or as most people know it, Area 51. His goal? To try and fi…

1 year, 3 months ago

Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon

Jeremy Bentham began planning for his death at a young age. He wrote a will in 1769, at the age of 21. But how did this philosopher’s dead body wind …

1 year, 3 months ago