Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Grave of Miss Baker (Winter Wonder Classic)
Visitors leave bananas on the grave of “America’s First Lady of Space,” an early astronaut whose incredible life was forgotten.
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The Tunguska Event (Winter Wonder Classic)
We head to a remote region of Russia, to the epicenter of what would become known as the Tunguska Event. An event that may seem unfathomable… except …
2 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago