Podcast Episodes

Kalakuta Museum

Iconic musician Fela Kuti declared his home in Lagos, Nigeria, an independent state. He called it Kalakuta - and in 1977 it was invaded by the Nigeri…

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The Portland Treasure Map

A map in the archives of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library in Portland, OR may be the key to finding buried treasure that has yet to be …

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The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama

The history of this 150-year-old immersive painting at the Atlanta History Museum features a scheming promoter, the cast of Gone with the Wind, Atlan…

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Endangered Wolf Center

The Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Missouri was founded by zoologist and wildlife TV host Marlin Perkins and was home to an extraordinary wolf who…

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Classic: The 49th Parallel

A listener takes us to a town on the edge of the longest undefended border in the world.

US-Canada border regulations have been updated since this epi…

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Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

For more than 40 years Selma Miriam and Noel Furie have maintained the Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant and Bookstore as a place where women …

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Oyotunji African Village

Oyotunji is an African Village with real homes and real community founded in the 1970s and located in the US - just an hour south of Charleston, Sout…

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Broken Angel

The 1980s birthed a gleaming creature that spread its wings of scrap wood and glass over the intersection of two iconic Brooklyn, NY neighborhoods fo…

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Enchanted Hart Haus

Steve and Amy Hartbauer have turned their home in residential Denver, CO into a massive mosaic and decade’s long expression of inner inspiration. 

REA…

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Classic: Jatinga Bird Deaths

An Indian village is home to one of the world’s oldest and greatest ornithological mysteries.

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