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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.

Trips We Couldn’t Miss

12 mins; March 02, 2025

Baobab Fare (Classic)

12 mins; February 27, 2025

The Plotz Plot on… TLC’s Sister Wives?

26 mins; February 26, 2025

Dylan’s Mailbag: Overrated Landmarks, Exploring Your Own City, and Places We Secretly Love

15 mins; February 25, 2025

Cuatro Ciénegas

11 mins; February 24, 2025

Are Wild Birds Singing Human Music?

17 mins; February 23, 2025

Nasothek Noses (Classic)

11 mins; February 20, 2025

Sam Sanders Is a Nature Girly

24 mins; February 19, 2025

Martinique’s Doomsday and the Man Who Survived

13 mins; February 18, 2025

The Snowy Owls of Boston Logan International Airport

11 mins; February 17, 2025

Atlas Obscura Presents: A Trucker on Seeing the US by Road with Women Who Travel

18 mins; February 16, 2025

Unusual Love Stories Week: Post Office Bay

13 mins; February 13, 2025

Unusual Love Stories Week: Getting Lost with Susan Orlean

22 mins; February 12, 2025

Unusual Love Stories Week: The Museum of Broken Relationships

15 mins; February 11, 2025

Unusual Loves Stories Week: Hachiko

9 mins; February 10, 2025

Unusual Love Stories Week: A Long Walk Home

18 mins; February 09, 2025

Send Dylan Your Questions!

1 min; February 07, 2025

Songs of Ice with the Places Team (Classic)

17 mins; February 06, 2025

Paul Scheer’s Life in Three Places

24 mins; February 05, 2025

Ben Franklin’s Musical Invention

17 mins; February 04, 2025

Africville

15 mins; February 03, 2025

First Travel Dates

13 mins; February 02, 2025

Medfield State Hospital (Classic)

11 mins; January 30, 2025

Joe Magarac: The Other Man of Steel

21 mins; January 29, 2025

More First Trips Abroad

14 mins; January 28, 2025

The Diving Horses of Atlantic City

19 mins; January 27, 2025

Dylan’s Mailbag: Tough Trips, Controversial Airplane Etiquette, and Tattoos

18 mins; January 26, 2025

Buckley’s Cave (Classic)

16 mins; January 23, 2025

The Mystery Man of Marree

24 mins; January 22, 2025

Mobile Bay’s Tidal Wave of Fish

13 mins; January 21, 2025

Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Platinum Blonde DJ On Her Way to Laos

13 mins; January 20, 2025

Atlas Obscura Presents: "Bigfoot is from North Carolina" with The Broadside

19 mins; January 19, 2025

Brown Dog Statue (Classic)

13 mins; January 16, 2025

Don’t Ask Jacques Ze Whipper What He Does for a Living

20 mins; January 15, 2025

The Town That Moved a Windmill

13 mins; January 14, 2025

The Kola Superdeep Borehole

17 mins; January 13, 2025

First Trips Abroad

12 mins; January 12, 2025

Endangered Wolf Center (Classic)

15 mins; January 09, 2025

Zach Stafford’s Life in Five Places

26 mins; January 08, 2025

Christine's Cell

15 mins; January 07, 2025

Art on Wheels

18 mins; January 06, 2025

Cabbage Patch BabyLand General Hospital

16 mins; January 05, 2025

New Year, New Travel Resolutions

1 min; January 03, 2025

The Divorce Colony (Holiday Classic)

16 mins; January 02, 2025

In the Doldrums with Bernie Harberts (Holiday Classic)

22 mins; January 01, 2025

Broken Angel (Holiday Classic)

15 mins; December 31, 2024

Beishan Broadcast Wall (Holiday Classic)

14 mins; December 30, 2024

Anne Spencer’s Garden (Holiday Classic)

13 mins; December 29, 2024

A Quick Hello from Dylan. Plus: We Want Your Dating Travel Stories!

1 min; December 27, 2024

Milo Bitters (Holiday Classic)

12 mins; December 26, 2024

Exploring the Abandoned with Blake Pfeil (Holiday Classic)

24 mins; December 25, 2024

The Shrek Donkey of Barron Park (Holiday Classic)

14 mins; December 24, 2024

The Tank (Holiday Classic)

13 mins; December 23, 2024

The Timbuktu Manuscripts

12 mins; December 22, 2024

A Message from Dylan. Plus: Send Us Your Questions!

1 min; December 20, 2024

The Portland Treasure Map

14 mins; December 19, 2024

Atlas Obscura Presents: A Tour de Stumps with Terrestrials

30 mins; December 18, 2024

Christmas Monsters with Colin Dickey

22 mins; December 17, 2024

Art We Love to Hate

14 mins; December 16, 2024

Dylan's Mailbag: Strange Things Packed, Authentic Adventures, Road Trip Food Disputes, and More

19 mins; December 15, 2024

What Was Your First International Trip?

1 min; December 13, 2024

Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics (Classic)

12 mins; December 12, 2024

The Witch’s Gear

22 mins; December 11, 2024

Palace of Depression

10 mins; December 10, 2024

Circling The Great Loop on a JetSki

16 mins; December 09, 2024

Hello, Stranger

12 mins; December 08, 2024

Atlas Obscura Presents Sound Influence: Andrea Cruz and Miguel Arteta

21 mins; December 05, 2024

Atlas Obscura Presents Sound Influence: José Rivera

16 mins; December 04, 2024

When a Bitcoin Mine Moves Next Door

19 mins; December 03, 2024

The Ether Dome

19 mins; December 02, 2024

Little Caughnawaga

14 mins; December 01, 2024

Atlas Obscura Presents Sound Influence: Los Rivera Destino and Jaquira Díaz

26 mins; November 28, 2024

Atlas Obscura Presents Sound Influence: Rita Moreno and Pachyman

29 mins; November 27, 2024

Riding with Dilla

14 mins; November 26, 2024

Is This America’s Ugliest Statue?

15 mins; November 25, 2024

The Places We’re Thankful For

10 mins; November 24, 2024

The Blue Whale of Catoosa (Classic)

13 mins; November 21, 2024

Bohemians, Bootleggers, and Bogus Bottles: A History of Absinthe

20 mins; November 20, 2024

The Integratron

16 mins; November 19, 2024

St. Paul Island vs. the Rat

12 mins; November 18, 2024

The Internet, IRL

14 mins; November 17, 2024

We want your stories of places you're grateful for!

2 mins; November 15, 2024

The Wren’s Nest (Classic)

13 mins; November 14, 2024

Nate DiMeo’s Personal Memory Palace

20 mins; November 13, 2024

Malaria Bat Roosts

15 mins; November 12, 2024

The Sul Ross Desk

14 mins; November 11, 2024

San Juan Sounds (Classic)

13 mins; November 10, 2024

Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis

9 mins; November 07, 2024

Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club

20 mins; November 06, 2024

Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery

13 mins; November 05, 2024

Weed Week: Dope Lake

16 mins; November 04, 2024

Weed Week: Get Inside the CannaVan

16 mins; November 03, 2024

Spooky Week: The Gray Man (Classic)

12 mins; October 31, 2024

Spooky Week: The Story of the Mad Gasser with Colin Dickey

23 mins; October 30, 2024

Spooky Week: Places That Give Us the Creeps

12 mins; October 29, 2024

Spooky Week: No More Scary Stories at Camp

17 mins; October 28, 2024

Spooky Week: Elmer McCurdy’s Nine Lives

17 mins; October 27, 2024

The Smallest Mollusk Museum (Classic)

14 mins; October 24, 2024

Living on Mars

20 mins; October 23, 2024

The South's Hidden Confessional

10 mins; October 22, 2024

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