Podcast Episodes

Amir Siraj and the Interstellar Object (Winter Wonder Classic)

Amir Siraj was a sophomore in college when he discovered what may be the first documented interstellar object to hit Earth.

2 years, 3 months ago

Tumbleweed Christmas Tree (Winter Wonder Classic)

Chandler, Arizona creates a Christmas Tree made entirely of the diaspore of this Western plant. 

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2 years, 3 months ago

A Holiday Announcement

Over the last two and a half years, the Atlas Obscura podcast has published well over 500 original episodes. For the next few weeks, we're taking a h…

2 years, 3 months ago

President Heads (Classic)

42 giant busts of U.S. presidents are slowly crumbling in a field in Virginia. 

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2 years, 3 months ago

Sniffing out What’s Special with Saskia Wilson Brown

Specific smells have been linked to specific geographies, cultures, and mythologies for THOUSANDS of years. Today, we hear from Saskia Wilson-Brown a…

2 years, 3 months ago

Nightwalking with Bianca Giaever

We learn about an age-old practice of nightwalking, with the help of two women who took it on as an experiment in the early chaotic days of the pande…

2 years, 3 months ago

A Return to Recipe Graves

Gastro Obscura’s senior editor Sam O’Brien returns to the podcast to go deeper with us on her strange beat – recipes etched into gravestones. We prob…

2 years, 3 months ago

Old City Hall Station

A producer takes a detour for a glimpse of what some call New York’s worst kept secret – a train station that’s been shut down and sealed away for ne…

2 years, 3 months ago

Pando the Trembling Giant (Classic)

Fishlake National Forest is home to the biggest organism by mass on the planet - but this giant is shrinking and an usual group has banded together t…

2 years, 3 months ago

Gourdlandia

This magical wonderland in Ithaca, New York is devoted entirely—almost spiritually—to this unusual and versatile fruit. It's also the brainchild of G…

2 years, 3 months ago