Podcast Episodes

World Famous Crochet Museum

Step inside the cutest, most cuddly museum for handmade crafts. This museum, set near Joshua Tree National Park, has been called “a vortex of love an…

2 years, 10 months ago

Reed College Reactor

Students at Reed College study things like philosophy, history and English. But for the past 50 years they’ve also had access to a scientific instrum…

2 years, 10 months ago

The Greenbrier

You’d never guess that beneath a historic, genteel southern resort sits a massive bunker that the US government built in case of catastrophic events.…

2 years, 10 months ago

Close to the Edge PART 2

We asked, you answered. Hear listener stories of near death travel experiences.

2 years, 10 months 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. 

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2 years, 11 months ago

Tabor Opera House

Colorado is known for being a music and performance hub. And that history goes way back – all the way to a theater that staged high dramas, tragedies…

2 years, 11 months ago

Frozen Dead Guy

Atop a mountain in a picturesque Colorado town is the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be, from the person w…

2 years, 11 months ago

Temple of Pythons

We visit southern Benin to hear the story of the Temple of Pythons and clear up some misconceptions about one of the world's most misunderstood spiri…

2 years, 11 months ago

Fairy Castle

A famous movie actress from the 1920s left the world a lasting piece of art — a remarkable miniature home that could be considered Chicago’s cutest p…

2 years, 11 months ago

Hitler’s Toilet (Classic)

It roamed the seas, served an evil dictator, survived a war, and ended up in a New Jersey auto-repair shop bathroom.

2 years, 11 months ago