Podcast Episodes

Classic: Salton Sea

The story of how humans desperate for water created a lake the size of the city of Los Angeles. And then, how that thirst turned toxic.

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Moving Monuments with the Places Team

Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring you stories of how sometimes giant monuments built for a specific site need to go …

3 years, 4 months ago

On The Appalachian Trail

A voicemail from a listener takes us out on the Appalachian trail, where we ford rivers, climb mountains, and work our way across one of the most sto…

3 years, 4 months ago

The Wren’s Nest

The Wren’s Nest in Atlanta is both a museum and former home of journalist Joel Chandler Harris and a hub for modern storytellers.

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3 years, 4 months ago

Laguna Del Diamante

A toxic lake high in the Andes mountains in Argentina is home to microbes that provide a window to our planet’s past — and a key to securing its futu…

3 years, 4 months ago

Atlas Obscura Presents Real Good

Real Good is a podcast with the mission to highlight real people out in the world - trying to make it better. This excerpt features the Real Good hos…

3 years, 4 months ago

Kasanka Bat Migration

Kasanka National Park in Zambia hosts one of the largest – and most mysterious! – animal migrations on the planet.

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3 years, 4 months ago

Hacienda Napoles

Medellín Cartel founder Pablo Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park-meets-Disney World resort with drug money. He called it Hacienda Nápoles.…

3 years, 4 months ago

Thompson Ice House

Thompson’s Ice House in Bristol, Maine is one of the only places in the United States where people gather every winter to take part in the age-old pr…

3 years, 4 months ago

Scary Stories from Real Places

Atlas contributors bring listeners stories from spooky locations they’ve visited and which continue to haunt them. 

3 years, 4 months ago