The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Explore a modern landmark in a medieval city. The Corpus Clock in Cambridge, England honors both the past and future of telling time.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/corpus-clock-corpus-christi-chronophage

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Atlas Obscura presents Gastropod’s episode “Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies.” Gastropod Hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley examine a scientific quest – and one of the world’s longest running experiments - to see how long weeds can survive.  They find zombie seeds, a treasure hunt, and more. 

Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/buried-treasure-weeds-seeds-and-zombies/

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dr-beals-seed-viability-experiment

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As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this tour of the world's oldest living things - with artist Rachel Sussman who’s been documenting these ancient things for 10 years.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/worlds-oldest-living-things

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 As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this conversation with Jessica Oreck who has spent the last 30 years collecting odd and forgotten objects. Now, they’re all beautifully curated and on display in the Office of Collecting and Design in Las Vegas.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month
Follow the Office of Collecting and Design on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/office.of.collecting/?hl=en
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/office-of-collecting-and-design

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 As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this story of the women who stepped up to produce thousands of guitars during World War II, only to be written out of the history.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month
Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-old-gibson-guitar-factory-kalamazoo-michigan

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As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this story of a national park in Southwest Uganda that is home to nearly half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. They and the local community rely on each other to survive.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month
Learn how to help the Bwindi Mountain Gorillas: https://ctph.org/
Sound of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and the mountain gorillas was recorded by Nick Penny. To see more of Nick’s work, visit: https://www.nickpennyphotography.com/
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bwindi-impenetrable-forest

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As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this story of how herdswomen in Northern Sweden have lured cows home with haunting melodies.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month
 

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-kulning

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Criminal and This is Love host Phoebe Judge brings us to the ancient ruins of Torre Argentina in Rome - the site of Julius Caesar’s assasination,  which also happens to double as an enormous sanctuary for cats.  
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/torre-argentina-roman-cat-sanctuary

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Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring listeners two Atlas Obscura locations developed as the result of a life-changing decision - to embark on a massive art project and live.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hercules

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Travel to the world’s oldest intact pyramid in Egypt - and learn about the genius who also influenced the fields of architecture, astronomy, and medicine.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pyramid-of-djoser

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AirBnB founder and CEO Brian Chesky discusses how design experiences, like those found at the Edna Laurence Nature Lab, shape his work.

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As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive including this museum’s buzzing collection which honors vibrator history.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/good-vibrations-antique-vibrator-museum

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A giant abandoned dam in Sudbury, Massachusetts, marks the inglorious failure of America’s champion of industry to triumph over nature. 
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fords-folly-water-dam

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Farmers in Yorkshire, England take years to coax their rhubarb plants into a world-renowned delicacy using a century-old technique.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rhubarb-triangle
 

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The Haitian Monument in Savannah, Georgia was built to commemorate the Haitian soldiers who came to the rescue of Patriots fighting in the Revolutionary War.

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Eight thousand years ago, this land’s first inhabitants built a village around a sacred spring. And today, in what is now Los Angeles, CA, their descendants still work to protect the site.

Learn more about the Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation: http://gabrielinosprings.com/wpsite/

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As part of Women’s History Month Atlas Obscura will be sharing some episodes from the archive starting with the story of how a 30-foot-tall mural on the side of a house in West Oakland is teaching an often left out part of the history of the Black Panther Party-- the women who fueled the movement. 

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/black-lives-matter-murals

Learn more about this project and sign up for a tour of the mini-museum here:  http://www.westoaklandmuralproject.org

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Wausau, Florida’s monument and annual festival celebrate this furry critter’s contributions to the community. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/possum-monument

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The Elephant Clock, a replica of an ancient invention, sits in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, surrounded by stores like The Gap, and H&M. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/elephant-clock

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The Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York played a pivotal role in the influential neighborhood’s cultural identity. 

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Gigantic pieces of the United States Capitol rest in Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC - waiting for anyone willing to step off the beaten path. 

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Members of the Atlas Obscura team share their experiences with unknown phenomena.  

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The grooves cut in this road outside Lancaster, CA play the finale of the William Tell Overture. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/civic-musical-road

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St. Brigid’s well in Clare, Ireland is site integral to the story of how a pagan goddess became a Christian saint. 

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This office, established by the founder of the American Red Cross, changed the lives of thousands of Civil War soldiers and their families.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clara-barton-missing-soldiers-office-museum

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This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit. 

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Lake Karachay in Ozersk, Russia is the site of a former secret Soviet Union nuclear facility - that’s inspired art despite the little that’s publicly known of the site.

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Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring listeners two Atlas Obscura locations created by people compelled by visions - the East West Peace Church in Munich, Germany, and the Source du Nil in Musenyi, Burundi.

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Lincoln, Massachusetts is home to one of the strangest pony herds you’re likely to see - and it’s been growing for more than a decade. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ponyhenge

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Producer Johanna Mayer takes a trip to the last Sears in New York City, a Brooklyn landmark, with two people whose lives were shaped by the department store. 

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Host Dylan Thuras speaks with Dave Seminara, author of the book Mad Travelers, about extreme travel and the people who love it.  

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The Panorama of the City of New York a star of the 1964 World’s Fair where it competed for attention with new technology like touch-tone phones and the Ford Mustang. The artwork now lives in the Queens Museum.  

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/a-panorama-view-of-new-york-city

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Nicola Twilley takes us to suburban London, where a 1000 square meter greenhouse is all that stands between us and the chocapocalypse. 

Listen to the Malta Lazaretto episode: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-quarantine-at-malta-lazaretto

Listen to Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/

Read Until Proven Safe: 

https://untilprovensafe.com/

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Join host Dylan Thuras, a satellite scientist, and a ship captain in search of gigantic swaths of bioluminescence that can radiate up from the surface of the sea over thousands of square miles. 

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Step inside the Theater of Electricity in Boston and learn about the World’s Largest Air-Insulated Van Der Graaf Generator.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-airinsulated-van-de-graaff-generator

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

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Writers Geoff Manaugh and Nicky Twilley take us inside a crumbling, centuries-old quarantine facility, and we explore the history and future of quarantine.

Read “Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine”: https://untilprovensafe.com/

Learn more about the Malta Lazzaretto: https://www.midimalta.com/en/the-lazaretto

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Boulders Beach in Simon’s Town in South Africa, is a destination where sunbathers, tourists, and penguins share both the beach and parts of the town.

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Monkey Island, Cayo, Santigo is an island off the coast of Puerto Rico where more than 1500 imported monkeys have lived and been studied by researchers for decades. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cayo-santiago-monkey-island

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The Citadelle Laferriere in Haiti was built to ensure the island remained free after Haitians defeated French colonizers.

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Boston’s Old North Church was cemented in American History by Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride. But now the ringers who play these bells in a centuries-old style are adding a twist.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bell-ringing-chamber-at-old-north-church

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In 1993 Bob Cassilly began to turn an old shoe factory into a massive interactive museum that now includes a plane fuselage, caves, and a ten-story slide. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/city-museum

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Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team find beauty and fascination at the sites of warped and bizarre statues in Nuremberg, Germany and Urgnano, Italy.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/der-hase

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-grotesques-of-urgnano-castle

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The Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska aims to domesticate a species that used to roam the earth at the same time as the sabretooth and wooly mammoth.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/musk-ox-farm

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The Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, Poland is the final resting place of famed composer Frédéric Chopin’s heart - smuggled there by Chopin’s sister after his death. 

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chopin-s-heart

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Razzouk Tattoo in Jerusalem has given Christian pilgrims permanent souvenirs from their travel for centuries.

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Visit the ruins of an ancient economic powerhouse’s capital city, Great Zimbabwe in the nation of Zimbabwe and learn how a colonial empire was determined to rewrite its story.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/great-zimbabwe

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Reporter Sam O’Brien takes us to Lily Dale, the world’s largest surviving community of spiritualists, where she learns (even if you don’t believe in ghosts) there’s more than one way to connect with the dead.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lily-dale-spiritualist-community

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There’s an everlasting lightning storm in Northwestern Venezuela that appears in the night sky nearly every night.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/relampago-del-catatumbo

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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 its history, and bask in the incredible acoustics of the space.

Visit Cisternerne and Frederiksberg Museerne: https://frederiksbergmuseerne.dk/da/

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cisternerne

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