Podcast Episodes

The Cardiff Giant Re-Listen

All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. In this installment we hear a listener’s tale of a theological dispute that became a real money-maker known to some as “Old Hoa…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Leimert Park Re-Listen

Producer Baudelaire Ceus travels to Leimert Park, a unique neighborhood in Los Angeles characterized by its historical relationship to Black liberation.

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Booming Dunes Re-Listen

An audio postcard from the desert of Badain Jaran in China, home of the Booming Dunes, and possibly the coolest sand sounds you’ve ever heard.

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Garbage Goat

This sculpture in Spokane, WA was created by a"welding nun" decades ago. 

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

The Divorce Colony

For a brief period the small frontier city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota drew in socialites and celebrities who were desperate to end their marriages.

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

The Cincinnati Subway

There are two miles of abandoned tunnels beneath the streets of Cincinnati, OH. A relic of an attempt to establish underground transportation in the city. 

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

The Places You Return To

Atlas Obscura listeners share stories from places they love so much they keep going back.

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

La Paz Re-listen

In the busy, traffic-packed capital city of Bolivia, we meet the zebras who keep the streets of La Paz safe for its citizens.

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

World’s Oldest Edible Ham

Atlas Obscura’s resident food and death reporter Sam O’Brien takes us to Smithfield, Virginia, where we meet a 120-year-old ham, and the people who love it.

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Nakagin Capsule Tower

This social and architectural experiment in Tokyo, Japan was once the leading building in a movement attempting to pair construction and biological growth. 

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago