Podcast Episodes

In Search of the Ghosts of the Forests

In California, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves. Reporter Alexa Lim ventures into the forest to get a look at albino redwoods…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Our New Year’s Travel Resolutions

The staff of Atlas Obscura share their new year’s travel resolutions – the things we want to change about how we travel or see the world this year.  …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Newtown Creek Nature Walk (Classic)

One man in Brooklyn, New York - armed with a homemade boat and an artistic vision - helped transform one of the most polluted industrial waterways in…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sea View Hospital and the Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

 Today, Sea View Hospital on Staten Island is largely abandoned. But it was here, in this forgotten place, staffed by people who were shunned and seg…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

2025 in Review: Our Travel Reflections

The new year is just around the corner. And the Atlas Obscura staff look back on the lessons and experiences they learned this year throughout their …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Pompeii of Nebraska

In 1971, a paleontologist discovered an animal graveyard in northeastern Nebraska. It was crammed with species that lived in North America millions o…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Minneapolis’s Giant Pencil

When a 180-year old bur oak tree collapsed during a rainstorm, a couple in Minnesota made a new life for it. 

Plus: How many U.S. states have you visi…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Maine’s Burning Blueberry Fields (Classic)

Travel to Penobscot, Maine, where one farmer maintains the tradition of burning his crop each year to rejuvenate it the next.

Hosted by Simplecast, a…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Maine Week: All Lighthouses Have Ghosts (Classic)

Over the course of its 200 year history, the lighthouse on Wood Island in Maine has been home to a celebrity dog, a grisly murder, some mischievous g…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Maine Week: Chef Jason and The Well

A couple decades ago, Jason Williams was working at a local restaurant in Portland, Maine. One day he was driving around to farmers markets looking f…

3 months ago