Podcast Episodes

Wild Chocolate with Rowan Jacobsen

Dylan chats with Rowan Jacobsen, a food journalist and host of the podcast called OBSESSION: Wild Chocolate. And he takes us on a journey that follow…

3 years, 4 months ago

Great Balls of Twine with the Places Team

Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring us stories about the biggest balls of twine. Plus, a special guest adds an additio…

3 years, 4 months ago

Clown Motel (Classic)

Tonopah, Nevada is home to the Clown Motel - an inn on the edge of the desert that’s packed with statues and figurines of Clowns. The eerie and fully…

3 years, 5 months ago

The Pennsylvania Firefly Festival (Classic)

The deep woods of Pennsylvania hold a phenomena that has drawn attention from scientists and people around the world, and was almost recently destroy…

3 years, 5 months ago

The Shrek Donkey of Barron Park (Classic)

We visit a park in Palo Alto, California, home of the world’s most famous donkey. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-donk…

3 years, 5 months ago

Cisternerne (Classic)

A massive 19th-century reservoir under the city of Copenhagen has been repurposed as a contemporary art cave. We venture inside to learn more about i…

3 years, 5 months ago

Zone Rouge (Classic)

A swath of land in Northern France still bears scars of the destruction of World War I. Destruction so bad that, in some cases, humans have never bee…

3 years, 5 months ago

Tiny Doors of Atlanta (Classic)

As part of Women’s History Month, we're sharing some episodes from the archive including this story about mysterious doors scattered throughout Atlan…

3 years, 5 months ago

Blurred lines with Stacy Horn

Writer Stacy Horn tells us about a period in American history when the study of psychic phenomena and the paranormal was serious business at places l…

3 years, 5 months ago

Manuscript Writing Cafe

We go to Tokyo, to a particular place that is both nemesis and best friend to all those procrastinators out there. (Yes, we’re looking at you :) 

LEAR…

3 years, 5 months ago